different between forby vs forb

English

Alternative forms

• foreby [15th-16th c.]
• forbye

Etymology

From Middle English forby, forbi, of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, equivalent to fore- +? by. Compare Saterland Frisian foarbie (“beyond, past”), Dutch voorbij (“past”), Low German vörbi, German vorbei (“gone, past”), Danish forbi, Swedish förbi. More at fore, by.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f??b??/

Adjective

forby (comparative more forby, superlative most forby)

1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Uncommon; out of the ordinary; extraordinary; superior.

   He's a forbye man.

Adverb

forby (comparative more forby, superlative most forby)

1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Past; by; beyond.
   • 1899, Richard Garnett, Alois Leonhard Brandl, The universal anthology:

     To see the world and folk that went forby, […]

2. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Uncommonly; exceptionally.

   He was forby kind.

Preposition

forby

1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Beyond; past; more than; greater than; over and above; moreover.
2. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic, of time) Past; gone by; over.
3. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Near; beside; by, close to.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:

     Those were the two sonnes of Acrates old / Who meeting earst with Archimago slie, / Foreby that idle strond, of him were told, / That he, wich earst them combatted, was Guyon bold.

4. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) On one side; out of the way.
5. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) Besides; in addition to; as well as; not to mention.

   There was other six forby me.

6. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland, archaic) With the exception of; not taking into account.

Synonyms

• (near): next to
• (besides): beyond, on top of; see also Thesaurus:in addition to
• (with the exception of;): barring, except for, save for; see also Thesaurus:except

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse fyrirbjóða

Verb

forby (imperative forby, present tense forbyr, passive forbys, simple past forbød or forbøy or forbydde, past participle forbudt or forbydd)

1. to ban
2. to forbid
3. to prohibit

Related terms

• forbud

References

• “forby” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• forbyde, forbyda (long forms)

Etymology

From Old Norse fyrirbjóða

Verb

forby (present tense forbyr, past tense forbaud or forbydde, past participle forbode or forbydd or forbydt, passive infinitive forbyast, present participle forbyande, imperative forby)

1. to ban, forbid, prohibit

Related terms

• forbod
• forboden

References

• “forby” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (phorb?, “food”), from ????? (phérb?, “to feed”).

Noun

forb (plural forbs)

1. (chiefly ecology) Any non-woody flowering plant that is not a graminoid (a grass, sedge, or rush).
   • 2002, Dale F. Lott, American Bison: A Natural History, page 122,

     So younger is better and the part nearest the roots is better, but what makes life possible for the pronghorn is a supply of forbs—small broadleaf plants growing among the grasses.

   • 2004, A. Kirilov, P. Todorova Development of forage areas and forage resources in Bulgaria during the period of transition, A. Lüscher, et al. (editors), Land Use Systems in Grassland Dominated Regions: Proceedings of the 20th General Meeting of the European Grassland Federation, Grassland Science in Europe, Volume 9, page 859,

     Buchgraber (1995) recommends 50-70% of grasses, 10-30% of legumes and also 10-30% of forbs on meadows, while Kessler (1994) recommends the same proportion of grasses, 10-20% of legumes and 20-40% of forbs on natural meadows.

Anagrams

• frob