Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs. · To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way. · To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in. · To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land).
Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from the spine to or toward the sternum. · A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something. · A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones. · Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to form the framework of the hull.
From Middle English rib, ribbe, from Old English ribb (“rib”), from Proto-West Germanic *ribi, from Proto-Germanic *ribją (“rib, reef”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rebʰ- (“arch, ceiling, cover”). Cognate with Dutch rib (“rib”), Norwegian ribbe (“sparerib”), Norwegian ribben (“rib”), Low German ribbe (“rib”), German Rippe (“rib”), Old Norse rif (“rib, reef”), Serbo-Croatian rèbro (“rib”). (wife or woman): In reference to the creation of Eve from Adam's rib in the Bible.
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- Root classification mention*h₁rebʰ-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionribenm
- Inherited-form mentionribbang · rib
- Inherited-form mention*ribigmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*ribjągem-pro · rib, reef
- Derivation mention*h₁rebʰ-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionribnl
- Cognate mentionribbeno
- Cognate mentionribbenno
- Cognate mentionribbends
- Cognate mentionRippede
- Cognate mentionrifnon
- Cognate mentionrèbrosh
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