Where does “*as” come from?
*as (Vulgar Latin) comes from Latin habes, from Arabic حَبَش — Abyssinian; Abysinnian.
Ancestry of “*as”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Latin | habes | second-person singular present active indicative... |
| 2 | Arabic | حَبَش | Abyssinian; Abysinnian |