termine formale che sostituisce i pronomi personali soggetto
eş: essa
köken: Inherited from Latin illaei. The formal address Lei appears in the 16th century in connection with Signoria (“Lordship”), Eccellenza (“Excellency”), Santità (“Holiness”) and Magnificenza, alongside Voi.
1320, Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy, Amadeo Augusto Lange (1788), page 161
La banana di Stranalandia è alla base dell’economia dell’isola. Senza di lei la vita qui sarebbe molto dura.
Lexicalization of the prefix ön- (“self-”). Proposed by István Széchenyi in analogy with the German form of address Sie, and popularized during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.