rob

rob
\ \ [13] Rob goes back ultimately to a prehistoric Germanic *raub- ‘break’ (a close relative of the Latin base rup- ‘break’, which has given English rout, route, and rupture). This produced Old English rēafianrob’, which although it has now died out has left us its derivative bereave [OE], and also Middle Dutch rōvenrob’, which gave English roverpirate’ [14]. It was also borrowed into Old French as robber, which is the source of modern English rob. Other English descendants of the Germanic base are robe, rubbish, and rubble.
\ \ Cf.BEREAVE, CORRUPT, DISRUPT, ROBE, ROUT, ROUTE, ROVER, RUBBISH, RUBBLE, RUPTURE

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