Quote Originally Posted by Culfinrandir View Post
Actually Ser is not English at all, it is Italian and was used by notaries & lawyers with an equivalence to Sir in English. It would never be used in England at all. A lot of people think it is to do with gender but that's a modern Internet concept. Simply put, women could never (and technically still can never) use the Sir/Ser honorific.
I'm pretty sure it's also a conjugation in Spanish and French as well. I'm really rusty on my French, but I'm almost positive it has a French form. All of the "romantic languages" find their roots in Latin, as does the verb "ser," so they should all have a form of it. I just don't recall what they all are. Given that English derives from Saxon (before borrowing a lot from Latin and later French), Ser does not have any linguistic relation. Still, you are most certainly correct. I am impressed you pointed it out.