It's a convention some
of us use on a different (IE) list; sorry for using it without warning. No
laryngeal meant here -- capital H is used as a diacritic (it simply stands
for aspiration). It would be *rebh- in your terms. Let me repeat that there is
no ground for claiming PIE status for this Northernism.
As for semantic
trickery, "month = rib" is a completely arbitrary equation, especially when
applied to isolated terms in language groups that are genetically and
geographically as far apart as Slavic or Germanic and Egyptian. With so much
latitude you could "prove" virtually anything, which is tantamount to proving
nothing.
Piotr
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Subject: Re: [nostratic] An online
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Why do you keep writing *reibH- and
*rebH-?
**reb-H-, your form, would lead to
Germanic *rip- not *rib-.