Dear Piotr and Nostraticists:
----- Original Message -----
From: Piotr Gasiorowski
To: nostratic@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: [nostratic] An online Afro-Asiatic database

This is entirely fanciful. There is no PIE *reibH- 'rib'.
 
[PCR]
I did not write *reibH-, I wrote *reibh-.
 
[PG]
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-.
 
[PCR]
Why do you keep writing *reibH- and *rebH-?
 
**reb-H-, your form, would lead to Germanic *rip- not *rib-.
 
[PG]
 To connect any such form directly with Old Egyptian using semantic prestidigitation is to abuse the normal comparative procedures.
 
[PCR]
In what way have I used semantic prestidigitation?
 
However, I will admit that I did not remember correctly the Coptic forms, and I should have checked them before I wrote.
 
I will accept that *rebh- is a better IE reconstruction than *reibh- but I am still puzzled with your *rebH-. Do you mean to indicate a final 'laryngeal'?
 
Also, there is Sumerian rib-gam-ma, a part of a roof', to support a wider distribution of Nostratic *raB- ( I write B to simply indicate a labial stop or affricate ).
 
So, all in all, I am still inclined to believe that 3b (Nostratic *rap?f^w-) is possibly related to IE *rebh- and Sumerian rib.
 
Pat
 
----- Original Message -----
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.


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