- faob
- an excrescence, knob, piece, Irish fadhb (Lh.++), Old Irish odb, obex, Welsh oddf: *ud-bhv-o-, "out-growth", root bhu, be (See bu). Stokes gives a Celtic *odbós, from eðgo-s, ozgo-s(?), allied to Greek $$Go$$'/shc, twig? Latin obex; or to Lithuanian u$$odega, tail. Lidén equates Latin offa, a ball. Stokes now $$Go$$'sfús.
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. Alexander Gairm Publications. 1982.