near thing

Something just barely effected, as in That election was a near thing-he won by a handful of votes. [Mid-1700s]

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Dovid	-	Yiddish
Remigius	-	Late Roman
Aldin	-	Bosnian
Teodora	te-o-DAW-rah (Italian), te-o-DHO-rah (Spanish), te-aw-DAW-rah (Polish)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Romanian, Polish, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian
Leifur	-	Icelandic
Mihails	-	Latvian