borrowing pronouns

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

"maher, johnpeter" <jpmaher at neiu.edu> wrote:

>In addition, Casdtilian has "Vd/Usted" from Arabic "ustaeth" 'teacher;

Surely not.  Usted < vuestra merced.

>and Italian "Lei" is a calque of sorts on the latter.

Lei = "she" (namely, "eccelenza", "maesta`" and other such
feminine abstract nouns).

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