From: bmscotttg
Message: 62567
Date: 2009-01-21
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "bmscotttg" <BMScott@> wrote:A verbal root seems much more likely. It's been discussed here
>> --- 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.
> Is it also possible that the sense-development went the other
> way around, from original *ribs > "rafters" > "roof" (and
> *rib > *rafter > "plank")?