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Ma; Assy, ma; The Heb. mah mostly interrogative ; Jm. 



Wa, ua ; Heb., hua, hu ; Ja,u, (I, y, S). 



In, ini, ne, na ; Heb., hen, henah, an, in, J n. 



Se, si, sa ; Heb., zeh, J s. 



Tu, ta, te, to ; Ch., da, J t. 



Eri, ru, ra, ri ; Ch., aru, J r. 



Lu, la, li ; Ch., alu ; Heb., al, aleh ; Arb., al, J 1, 



If the two latter, 1 and r, were originally one in Sh., as 

 Gesenius thinks, so in Oc. 



Ko, ka, ki, ku, ke ; Heb., kah (from kahu), J k. 



Fa, ba, be, pa, pe, va ; Heb., pa, pah, fa (from bahu), J b. 



Compounds of these are very common in Sh. and Oc., thus 

 (v. voc. 56.) 



Nin, nen ; My., nun, nen, nin ; Syr., enun, enen. 



Susa ; Assy., sasa, sasu. 



Rik, erik ; Syr., hereka ; My., m&rika. 



Nanga (naka) ; Ch., henak. 



Tuk ; Ch., dek. 



Thus, in Ef. we have nis, wis, kis, sin, wai, wan, netu ; 

 nai, Syr., hnu (used for third personal pronoun, singular) ; 

 and nara (third plural). So — Mg., izato, (Heb., zath), izao, 

 izany,ity, iroa, iny, ireto, ireny, &c; and used as third personal 

 pronoun, singular, izy ; plural, izareo. Sam., lenei, sinei, 

 lea, lena, lela, sea, sisi, ia, na, nei, &c. ; used as third personal 

 pronoun, singular, ia ; plural, ila-tou. My., ini, tu, itu, 

 nun or nen; and used as third personal pronoun, singular, 

 iya ; plural, marika. 



Remarks. — The pronoun used for the third singular con- 

 tains as its principal part the one used in all the Sh. 

 languages for the same purpose : thus, Assy., su — {i.e., J s., 

 above, and hu or u) is in Mg. izy (the y representing this u, 

 sounding like short i or ii). The Amharie further com- 

 pounds this word by adding J r, thus, arsu. Ef., nai is the 

 same i or y with na prefixed, as in Syr., instead of sa, as in 

 Assy. Sam., ia or o — i.e., ko ia. My., iya. 



The one used for the third plural is like the Heb. al, aleh., 

 " plural according to use, and not according to grammatical 

 inflexion." Ef, nara (n. r.). Mg., izareo (z. r.). Api., Tiala. 

 Paama., &eila. Heb., aleh. In My., marika, we have the 

 J m that appears in the Arb. and Heb. pronouns plural. 

 It only remains to add that the various pronouns used in 

 the Sh. for the third plural are all, like the Oc. just explained, 

 compounds of the above simple demonstratives. Thus, Heb., 



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