res

head of quadrupedal livestock or game (e.g. cattle, sheep, deer); cattle

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís Proto-Italic *reis Latin rēs Old Spanish res Spanish res Inherited from Old Spanish res, from the nominative of Latin rēs (“thing, property”). Cognate with Aragonese, Asturian, Catalan, and Galician res and Portuguese rês. A derivation from Arabic رَأْس (raʔs, “head”, also of cattle) is almost unanimously described in dictionaries and represents a perfect semantic match, but it fails on phonetic grounds: the front vo