From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Sun Jun 08 2003 - 01:55:35 EST
Adam Walker scripsit:
> I'm surprised that no one has yet mentioned the
> alternate theory that Usted is a borrowing from Arabic
> ustez.
Hopefully because it's bogus. :-)
There are a whole variety of alternative forms, the details of which
I don't have handy, that Spanish used to use: vuestra this, that, and
the other.
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