RIB [E]ReBH Ayin-Resh-Bhet
(AH)-ROB(H) ערב
[U-R-BH]
ROOTS: The transverse,
supporting arm in the hull of a ship, the ridges of material supporting and
shaping an umbrela, or a bone extending from the spine, are all called a
RIB.
Performing the same service, a WOOF is a crosswise thread in a fabric. RIB is only known to come from Old English ribb;
no Indo-European “root” was able to be reconstructed for RIB.
ערב [E]ReBH is a WARP, WEFT or WOOF (Leviticus 13:48) See “REEVE” and “WOOF”. Many
words about extending over are seen at “OVER.”
Switching to Ayin-Bhet-Resh is this prolific Edenic root, עבר [E]eBHeR is a side, flank (I Samuel
14:40. Aramaic [A]hBHahR and Akkadian ebir is the bank of a
river. There is also אבר AyBHeR, a wing (side extension) or, later, a limb
BRANCHES:
“RIB” in Germanic forms (closest to Old English):
Danish, Dutch ribbe; German Rippe; Icelandic rifbein;
Norwegian rib and Swedish ribba.
Slavic
“rib”s:
Rabro -- Belarusian
Rebro -- Bosnian, Bulgarian,
Croatian, Macedonian, Russian ребро,
Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Ukrainian
Žebro -- Czech, Polish (which favors אבר AyBHeR or עבר [E]eBHeR over ערב [E]ReBH ).
Baltic:
Latvian riba
. Other
IE includes:
Irish (Celtic) rib;
“Rib” words favoring עבר GHeBHeR,
a side, flank :
Azerberjani qabırğa, (adj.) rib, coastal, Kasakh qabırğa (rib, wall), Korean galbi 갈비
Mongolian khavirga, Turkish kaburga and Uzbek qovurg'a ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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