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Webster 1913 Edition

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oby ‎(plural obies)

oby

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).

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