*raˀš- - head (SED I No. 225)

Akkadian

rēšu - head; servant, slave; top, summit; beginning (CAD R 277, AHw. 973)

Ebla

rí-še₆ - SAG (Krebernik 1983: 46, Blažek 1994: 79)

/riˀši/

Ugaritic

rˀiš - head (DUL 724)

Amarna Canaanite

ru-šu-nu (with 1 pl. pron. suff.) - head (DNWSI 1042)

Phoenician

rˀš - head (Tomback 1978: 297)

Hebrew

rō(ˀ)š - head; person; beginning; leader, chief (HALOT 1164)

Moabite

rš - head (DNWSI 1042)

Deir Alla

rˀš - head (DNWSI 1042)

Old Aramaic

rˀš - head (DNWSI 1042)

Official Aramaic

rˀš, rš, ryš - head (DNWSI 1042)

Biblical Aramaic

rē(ˀ)š - head; beginning (HALAT 1777)

Palmyrean

rš - head (DNWSI 1042)

Nabataean

rˀš - head (DNWSI 1042)

Jewish Palestinian Aramaic

ryš - head (DJPA 510)

Christian Palestinian Aramaic

ryš, det. ryšˀ - head (DCPA 400)

Samaritan

ryš - head (DSA 833)

Jewish Babylonian Aramaic

rēšā, rˀšˀ - head, top (DJBA 1078)

Syriac

rešā - head; top, summit; point; beginning (LSyr. 728, SL 1462)

Mandaic

riša - head (MD 434)

Maalula

raiša - Kopf (GNDM 77)

Turoyo

rišo - Haupt, Kopf; Ende, Spitze (head; end, top) (RW 443)

Arabic

raˀs- - head (Lane 995, BK 1 793)

Sabaic

rˀs₁ - head (SD 112)

Geez

rəˀs - head (CDG 458)

Tigre

raˀas - head (WTS 155)

Tigrinya

rəˀsi - head (TED 572)

Amharic

ras - head (AED 381)

Harari

urūs - head (EDH 32)

Mehri

ḥə-rōh - head (ML 310)

Jibbali

rέš - head (JL 201)

Harsusi

ḥé-rih, ḥe-rīh - head (HL 101)

< *ḥa-rīš

Soqotri

ri - 1. head; 2. top, upper part (LS 390; CSOL I 631; CSOL II 559; Naumkin et al. 2015a:81)

men ri ‘from above’ (2b)

ḷe-ri di- ‘above, over (something)’ (2c)

ḷe-ri ‘above at the utmost point, at the zenith’ (2d)