borrowing pronouns

[maher, johnpeter]

"Vuestra Merced" is a folk etymology.

Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:

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

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

> 1. Surely ...

Whoah! --- The rhetorical emission  "surely" [vel sim : "clearly, certainly
vel sim] is hot air emitted in the absence of argument, evidence or
homework.

Spell out the phonetic developments and refute the ascription to Arabic

> 2. Lei = "she" (namely, "eccelenza", "maesta`" and other such
> feminine abstract nouns).

Certainly [i.e. I would suppose that] a feminine pronoun presupposes a
feminine noun, real OR  IMAGINED.

jpm