An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/reiben

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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, R (1891)
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Friedrich Kluge2510688An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, R — reiben1891John Francis Davis

​ reiben, vb., ‘to rub, scratch, scour,’ from the equiv. MidHG. rîben, OHG. rîban, for an older *wrîban, whence Fr. riper, ‘to scrape’; comp. LG. wrîven, Du. wrijven, ‘to rub.’ The Teut. root wrī̆b has not yet been found in the other Aryan languages.

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