forby – English adjective declension

Adjective: forby

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Adjectives inflected like forby

priest-ridden, unreposed, evadible, dissentious, dissentient, unforesighted, egocentrical, unephemeral, unennobling, mensuralist, flocculent, unseductive, whoopsy, whooshy, surrogate, Nicodian, unrepaired, prismatoidal, renorenal, unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

From Middle English forby, forbi, of Middle Low German or North Germanic origin, equivalent to fore- + by. Compare Saterland Frisian foarbie (“beyond, past”), West Frisian foarby (“over, beyond, past”), Dutch voorbij (“beyond, past”), Low German vörbi, vörbie (“over, up, gone, finished, past”), German vorbei (“over, gone, past”), Danish forbi, Swedish förbi. More at fore, by. See: Dutch Adjectives 'voorbij'.

Verbs referencing "forby"

Dutch Adjectives voorbij.