different between oby vs goby

English

Noun

oby (plural obies)

1. Archaic form of obeah.

Anagrams

• BYO, Y. O. B., Y.O.B., YOB, YoB, boy, byo, yob

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??????/, /t?????/, /s?????/

Adjective

oby

1. green, blue

Usage notes

• The stem oby could never be used inside a sentence without a prefix. In predicative position, the form toby was used for animate subjects, and soby for inanimate subjects. When modifying nouns, the noun itself would be agglutinated with the adjective (as nouns always precede adjectives in Tupi).

References

• LEMOS BARBOSA, A. Curso de Tupi antigo. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, 1956.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.b?/

Particle

oby

1. hopefully, if only, let, may

   Synonyms: bodaj, niech, niechaj

Further reading

• oby in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• oby in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Etymology

From Latin gobius (“gudgeon”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (k?biós), a type of small fish, of unknown ultimate origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ub?/

Noun

goby (plural goby or gobies)

1. Any of various small fish from the large family Gobiidae, in which the pelvic fins are fused to form a disc-shaped sucker.
2. A gudgeon, such as Gobio gobio.

Derived terms

• black goby
• burrowing goby
• common goby (Pomatoschistus microps)
• dwarfgoby, dwarf goby
• prawn goby
• reefgoby
• shrimp goby
• true goby (Gobiidae)

Translations

See also

• mudskipper

References

• goby on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Gobiidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Gobiidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Gudgeon (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• bogy, boyg