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Padraic Brown scripsit:
> > vosu /-a = you (formal m/f)
>
> This I like, the m/f distinction. Is there a
> reason it doesn't happen in the informal forms?
Presumably because "tu" is inherited and genderless, but "vosu" is some
short form of "Your Xness", where Xness is a gendered noun.
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