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While all these forms may actually appear suffixed to the verb, 

 there prevails a tendency (discussed on p. 479) to suffix the subjective 

 pronouns to adverbial terms preceding the verb rather than to the 

 verb itself. This transposition of the suffixes for the subject of the 

 action considerably lessens the syllabic quantity of the whole verbal 

 expression. 



The pronoun I-thee coincides phonetically with the form for 

 thou-me; and in order to avoid ambiguity of meaning, the subjects 



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