Etymology

neighborly

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Proto-Germanic *līką ← Proto-Indo-European *leyg- ← English neighbor
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The story

  1. Englishneighbor
  2. Proto-Indo-European*leyg-
  3. Proto-Germanic*līką
  4. English todayneighborly

From neighbor + -ly.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.