The story
- Proto-Semitic · derived from*raʾš-“head”
- English todayresh
From Proto-Semitic *raʾš- (“head”). Doublet of ras (“Ethiopian king”) and ras (“headland”), and related to reis.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Today it means: The twentieth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others). It is homologous with Greek rho and Latin r. Full definition →
Proto-Semitic *raʾš-