May 16, 2010, 07:38 AM
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Diamond
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Las Vegas, USA
Posts: 7,863
Native Language: Castellano
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Perikles
Presumably, that came from Latin rasus, past participle of radere: to scrape, shave, with associated words arrasar, arrastrar, rallar, ras, rascacielos, rascar, rasurar, etc.
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Correct, I imagine. 
I would imagine also, that rasurar is closer to "ras" thence "rasar".
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