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Ugaritic
rˀš - to toss the head
(DUL 724)
meaning very uncertain (cf. Pardee 1985: 62‒63), but there is hardly a connection with any of the Akkadian lexemes mentioned in Watson 2007: 70. An Akkadian borrowing in Ugaritic is very unlikely.