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Franco-Provençal
Noun
rês
- plural of rê
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin rēs (“thing, property”). The etymology Arabic رَأْس (raʔs, “head”, also of cattle) is no longer considered valid. While the latter is a perfect semantic match, the front vowel of the Romance form speaks against an Arabic origin because dialects generally maintain a back -a- in this word (compare Maltese ras, not *ries). For the sense evolution in the former derivation, compare English cattle.
Pronunciation
Noun
rês f (plural reses)
- neat (food animal)