Proto-Basque: *er̄esa-l (or *e=r̄esa-l)
Meaning: tree
Araban: errexal
Comments: A mysterious Bsq word, attested only in Landucci’s (1562) dictionary of Araban. The reconstruction shown is very provisional. There is not much foundation for a botanical suffix -l: but cf. Bsq (B) zume-l ‘kermes oak’ ~ Budukh ǯum-ǝl ‘cornel’, etc. Nevertheless, the core of the Bsq word, *er̄es- or *e=r̄es-, is semantically and phonetically a match for PNC *rä̆śwē.
