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From Proto-Indo-Aryan*rāśíṣ, from Proto-Indo-Iranian*rāćíš. The Indo-Iranian term is traditionally derived from *rać-(“to bind, tie”); however, this has been considered semantically dubious by linguists including Mayrhofer.[1]
Nussbaum (2016) rejects a connection to *rać-(“to bind, tie”) and instead connects the Indo-Iranian term with Latinlocuplēs(“wealthy”), reconstructing Proto-Indo-European*loḱis as ancestral to the two.[2]
^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “*rāśí-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 449
^ Nussbaum, Alan J. (2016) “Replacing locus ‘place’ in Latin locuplēs”, in Dieter Gunkel, Joshua T. Katz, Brent Vine, Michael Weiss, editors, Sahasram Ati Srajas: Indo-Iranian and Indo-European Studies in Honor of Stephanie W. Jamison, Beech Stave Press, →ISBN, retrieved June 5, 2023