{"id":1441,"date":"2021-09-25T12:38:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T12:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2021-09-25T13:14:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T13:14:24","slug":"adventures-in-etymology-28-neighbour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1441","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Etymology 28 &#8211; Neighbour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Adventures in Etymology 28 &amp;#8211; Neighbour\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-09-25T12:38:08+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"As I got to know some of my neighbours better this week I thought I\u2019d look into the the origins of the word neighbour [\u02c8ne\u026ab\u0259] \/ neighbor [\u02c8ne\u026ab\u025a].\n\n\n\nDefinition:\n\n \ta person who lives near or next to another\n \ta person or thing near or next to anoth...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/neighbour2.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2201\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1441-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/neighbour2.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/neighbour2.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/neighbour2.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/neighbour2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1441-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/neighbour2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"neighbour2.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>As I got to know some of my neighbours better this week I thought I\u2019d look into the the origins of the word <strong>neighbour<\/strong> [\u02c8ne\u026ab\u0259] \/ <strong>neighbor<\/strong> [\u02c8ne\u026ab\u025a].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/51380102788\/in\/album-72157624974257146\/\" title=\"Hector, my neighbour's dog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51380102788_c7ec71ff3f_z.jpg\" alt=\"Hector, my neighbour's dog\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Definition<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a person who lives near or next to another<\/li>\n<li>a person or thing near or next to another<\/li>\n<li>to be or live close (to a person or thing)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/neighbour\">source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>It comes from the Middle English <em>neighebor<\/em> [\u02c8n\u025bix\u0259bur] (neighbour, citizen), from the Old English <em>n\u0113ah\u0121eb\u016br<\/em> [\u02c8n\u00e6\u035c\u0251\u02d0x.je\u02ccbu\u02d0r] (neighbour), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*n\u0113hwagab\u016br\u00f4<\/em> [\u02c8n\u025b\u02d0.x\u02b7\u0251.\u0263\u0251.\u02ccbu\u02d0.r\u0254\u02d0\u02d0] (neighbour), from <em>*n\u0113hwaz<\/em> [\u02c8n\u025b\u02d0.x\u02b7\u0251z] (near, close) and <em>*gab\u016br\u00f4<\/em> (dweller) from <em>*b\u016braz<\/em>  (room, chamber, dwelling, residence)  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/neighbour#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Other words derived for the Proto-Germanic <em>*n\u0113hwaz<\/em> include <strong>near<\/strong>, <strong>next<\/strong> and <strong>nigh<\/strong> (near, close by), as in \u2018the end is nigh\u2019 in English, <strong>nah<\/strong> [na\u02d0] (near, close, nearby) in German, and <strong>na<\/strong> (close) in Dutch  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/nigh#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Other words derived for the Proto-Germanic <em>*b\u016braz<\/em> include <strong>bower<\/strong> in English, <strong>buur(man\/vrouw)<\/strong> [byr] (neighbour) in Dutch, <strong>boer<\/strong> [bu\u02d0r] (farmer, peasant) in Dutch and Afrikaans, <strong>Bauer<\/strong> (birdcage) in some German dialects, and <strong>bur<\/strong> [b\u0289\u02d0r] (cage) in Swedish [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic\/b%C5%ABraz\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/CCaajh_zHDU\">video<\/a> I made of this information:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CCaajh_zHDU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video made with <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/37vAg5P\">Doodly<\/a> &#8211; an easy-to-use animated video creator [affiliate link].<\/p>\n<p>German, Dutch and Swedish words pronounced by <a href=\"https:\/\/speakabo.com\/text-to-speech\/\">https:\/\/speakabo.com\/text-to-speech\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also write about etymology, and other language-related topics, on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/\">Omniglot Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can also listen to this podcast on: <a 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Definition: a person who lives near or next to another a person or thing near or next to another to be or live close (to a person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,42,47,20,56,24,4,58,55,1,57,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-etymology","category-afrikaans","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-german","category-language","category-middle-english","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-podcast","category-proto-germanic","category-swedish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1453,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}