Re[4]: [tied] Re: Brugmann's Law

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 51661
Date: 2008-01-20

At 3:26:34 PM on Sunday, January 20, 2008, Rick McCallister
wrote:

> I'd imagine that orphan and robot are related to "rip" and
> "(be)reft" --i.e. "ripped away from, deprived from
> (freedom, family, goods)"

I believe that those are from *reub-; at any rate, they want
*b, not *bH. The 'orphan'/'robot' root is *h3erbH- > *orbH.

Brian