An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/reiben

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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, R
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis
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This annotated version expands the abbreviations in the original entry reiben. Random word Special:RandomInCategory/Annotated entries in Kluge's Etymological Dictionary of the German Language
2522207An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, R — reibenJohn Francis DavisFriedrich Kluge

​ reiben, verb, ‘to rub, scratch, scour,’ from the equivalent Middle High German rîben, Old High German rîban, for an older *wrîban, whence French riper, ‘to scrape’; compare Low German wrîven, Dutch wrijven, ‘to rub.’ The Teutonic root wrī̆b has not yet been found in the other Aryan languages.

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