SEDonline
Semitic Etymological Database
Words
Reconstructions
About
Abbreviations
References
Hebrew
rēˀā - lung
(Jastrow 1472)
pB.
Reconstruction
PWS
*riˀ-at-
- lung
(SED I No. 224)
Usually compared to Akk. irtu, Ugr. ˀirt. ‘breast’; reconstruction of two different roots probably related by metathesis (cf.
*ˀir(r)-at- ‘chest, breast’
) is preferable.