* Re: Push (3)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet"
<fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

> From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>

>> At 4:57:26 PM on Tuesday, January 20, 2009, Arnaud Fournet
>> wrote:

>> [...]

>>> Eng rib < Tibetan rtsib

>> PIE *h1rebH- 'to cover (with a roof)', with reflexes in
>> Greek, Germanic, Slavic, and perhaps II (Khufi <rawj>
>> 'plank' < Proto-Iran. *rabaka, according to Mallory & Adams
>> s.v. <roof>).

> We're talking about a rib (anatomical part) not a roof !?

I know. Apparently in Germanic and Slavic the ribs were seen as
the roof (or perhaps the rafters) of the chest.

Brian