neeghe

• nich

Inherited from Middle English neygh, from Old English nēah, from Proto-West Germanic *nāhw, from Proto-Germanic *nēhw, from *nēhwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂neḱ- (“to reach”).

• IPA^(key): /niːx/, /nɪx/

neeghe (comparative 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.

• neemest

• 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