It's not "ras" -- it's "raz", and I don't know the etymology.  And it's "odin", not "adin".  And by the way, "raz" has more of a time/momentary connotation, AND you'll hear "odin" as often as you'll hear "raz" in counting situations.  I spent 1-1/5 years in INTENSIVE Russian training, and spent 10 years afterwards listening to Russians, so I have some idea of what I'm talking about.

"H.M. Hubey" <hubeyh@...> wrote:

    Russian seems to have two words for "one"; adin/odin (which seems
to be related to "one") and "ras" which is used in counting up e.g. ras,
dva, tri,chitri,

What is the likelihood that "ras" is from Semitic "head".

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Mark Hubey
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