英文词源
- neighbour
- neighbour: [OE] Etymologically, your neighbour is simply someone who ‘lives near’ you. It is a compound formed in the Old English period from nēah (ancestor of modern English nigh) and gebūr ‘dweller’ (a descendant of the prolific Germanic base *bū- ‘dwell’, which also produced English be, booth, bower, build, etc). Parallel formations in other Germanic languages include German nachbar and Swedish and Danish nabo. The derivative neighbourhood dates from the 15th century, but was not used in its main modern sense ‘district’ until the late 17th century.
=> be, booth, bower, build, burly, byre, husband, near - neighbour
- chiefly British English spelling of neighbor (q.v.); for spelling, see -or.
中文词源
neighbour系由古英语neahgebur演变而来，第一成分neah相当于现代英语nigh／near（接近的），第二成分gebur则相当于dweller（居住者）或peasant（农民），所以neighbour的字面义即为one who lives near或a peasant who lives near。可见neighbour的词义从古至今几乎无甚变化母
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