What is the origin of the word neighbor?

Answer 1

The source of our word, the assumed West Germanic form *nāhgabūr, was a compound of the words *nēhwiz,"near," and *būram, "dweller, especially a farmer." A neighbor, then, was a near dweller.

Answer 2

The word neighbor (which is the American English way of spelling the British English neighbour), is derived from mostly Germanic roots, although it can be traced to Proto-Germanic and Proto-Indo-European.

In Old English, the West Saxons had the word neahgeburand the Anglians had the word nehebur, both to mean someone who lives beside us. These Old English words are ultimately derived from two different words: the West Saxon neah or the Anglian neh (which both mean "near") and bur "room, hut, dwelling, chamber".

Neah or neh share the same roots as the Old Frisian nei, Dutch na, Old High German nah, or the Gothic newa. Bur comes from Proto-Germanic buraz, from the Proto-Indo-European root bheue- "to be, exist, dwell".

Answer 3

An abstract noun form of the concrete noun neighbor is neighborliness.

Answer 4

Neighborhood