An Assyrian word thought to mean literally "at the head," but used from the earliest recorded texts to refer to men who are not male. It may be a cognate to the Babylonian girsega or girsequ. Imagine a root word with the consonants s-g-r-s-g, and first remove the g-sounds. You are left with s-r-s, or saris. Returning to s-g-r-s-g, remove the first prefix, and you have g-r-s-g, or girsega/ girsequ. Thus the difference between saris and girsequ may be nothing more than a dialect difference.