The story
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*hnajjaną“to neigh”
- Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*hnaijan
- Old English · inherited fromhnǣġan
- Middle English · inherited fromneyen
- English todayneigh
Inherited from Middle English neyen, from Old English hnǣġan, from Proto-West Germanic *hnaijan, from Proto-Germanic *hnajjaną (“to neigh”). Cognate with dialectal Dutch neien, Middle Low German neigen, Swedish gnägga, Icelandic hneggja.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.