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Amharic
əsswo/ərswo/ərsäwo - you
(AED 1146)
Used as a polite form of the 2 sg. personal pronoun. Usually derived from the unattested form *rəs/*ərs ‘head’, although its vocalism is quite different from that of the standard Amharic reflex of this word (
ras
) (Bulakh–Kogan 2013b:97–98).