obe
English
Noun
obe (plural obes)
- (historical) A particular subdivision of ancient Laconia.
- 1890, Sir William Smith, William Wayte, George Eden Marindin, A dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities, volume 1, page 905:
- It is probably that the τριακάδες represented ultimate division of the people, like the γένη of Attica; but it is difficult to see how such generic divisions could have born any relation to the local division of the obe.
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Nzadi
Further reading
- Crane, Thera; Larry Hyman; Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN
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