* Re: Push (3)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "bmscotttg" <BMScott@...> wrote:

>
> --- 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
>

Is it also possible that the sense-development went the other way
around, from original *ribs > "rafters" > "roof" (and *rib > *rafter >
"plank")?

By the way, on the association of "bitter" with "burn": don't burnt
things taste bitter? This is also similar to the association between
English "black" and Latin "flagra:re" ("blaze"): burnt things are
black in colour.

Andrew