neeghe

Yola

Alternative forms

• nich

Etymology

From Middle English nighe, from Old English nēah.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /niː/
• Homophone: naay

Adjective

neeghe (comparative nigher or neicher)

1. nigh
   • 1867, OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, page 18:

     Neeghe a heighe thoornes (or thoweares) o' Culpake

     [Nigh to the high thorns of Colepeak.]

   • 1867, “JAMEEN QOUGEELY EE-PEALTHE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 110, lines 2-3:

     Hea raan awye del hea caame neeghe Burstheoune.

     He ran away until he came nigh to Bridgetown.

Derived terms

• neemest

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 59