Are there any sources that discuss whether Abraham and Noah knew of each other's existence, if there was ever any interactions between the two and/or if they ever met (not sure if their lives actually overlapped)? Noah was after all Abraham's 9x-great grandfather.

A friend of mine, a professional translator and interpreter, was stymied in her work by a word that some rabbis keep using when quoting Talmud, baraitot, Rambam, even Rav Cook. To her ear (she is a native Hebrew speaker and fluent in German as well as English) it sounds like "okinta" and seems to...