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- Middle English · inherited fromnychtbourschype
- English todayneighborship
From Northern Middle English nychtbourschype, neȝeborusipe, equivalent to neighbor + -ship. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Noaberskup (“neighborship”), West Frisian neibuorskip (“neighborship”), Dutch nabuurschap (“neighborship”), German Low German Naberskupp, Naverschop (“neighborhood; neighborship”), German Nachbarschaft (“neighborship; neighborhood”), Danish naboskab (“neighborship”), Swedish naboskap (“neighborship”).
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishnychtbourschype all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.