This is entirely fanciful. There is no PIE
*reibH- 'rib'. At best, there is a regional (northern) term for "rib" shared by
Slavic (*reb-ro-) and Germanic (*rib-ja-), but the common source of these
could only be reconstructed as *rebH-. To connect any such form directly with
Old Egyptian using semantic prestidigitation is to abuse the normal comparative
procedures.
Piotr
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Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: [nostratic] An online Afro-Asiatic database
Patrick wrote:
A quick example: the sign used to
write 'month' is currently transcribed 3b. Actually, it is **3jb, and this
corresponds to IE *reibh-, 'rib'. The connection is the waxing lunar crescent,
of course.