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thy. My., angkau, ang, kau (i.e. } ka u). Api, tau, ta u ; 

 Heb., attah. 



Second Plural. 



Ef., kum. (kumu) ; Arb., v. and n. s., kum (ko, sing, and 

 m, pi.) : v. p., ku; k, sing., u, pi., as in Assy, and Heb.: n. 

 and v. s., Ef., mu, kumu shortened ; Arb., kum ; Heb., kem. 

 My. , kamu, -mu, as in Ef. 



Third Singular. 



i 

 nya, (nun epenthetic). 



V. p., e. (i, y) ; Heb., i (y): v. s., -s.; Assy, -s ; a, e, na, nia ; 

 Heb., ah, eh, nah ; Ch., e : n. s., na (as in v. s.) ; Mg., ny., My.. 



Third Plural. 



V. p., eu ; Heb. i u (he they) : v. and n. s., ra or ta, 



analagously formed to Heb. m, and already explained 

 above : — ta same as Amharic - tu. It is the same t that is 

 used in Sh. to form the plural of nouns. 



For the separate pronouns sing, and plural of the third 

 person (see above, §1). In Oc., as in Sh., the dual is a 

 modification of the plural. It only remains to notice the 

 personal pronouns with epenthetic demonstratives, of which 

 nun epenthetic is one that may be regarded as typical. 

 Gesenius says " this nun is of a demonstrative nature, 

 and belongs to the appended accusat. of the personal pro- 

 noun, to which it seems to direct attention as the object of 

 the verb. This nun is frequent in Chaldee. In Samaritan it 

 is appended also to the preterite, and in similar cases even 

 a t (th) inserted. In the Syriac there is a yodh with a con- 

 sonant power used in the same way." This last is the i of 

 Sam., Ef., and My. The Ef. (and Fiji) epenthetic demon- 

 stratives are numerous, but are simply the demonstratives in 

 §1. Thus we have Ef, third sing., ace, bia, mia, ria, tia, 

 sia, ngia (kia), nia ; second sing., ace, fik (or fiko), mik, rik, tik, 

 sik, kik, nik, &c, &c. Then we have compounds thus — 

 makinia (ma ki ni) sakinia (sa ki ni) , &c, and note especially 

 the compound kin or kan, which, as lean is one of the most 

 important words of the My. grammar and dictionary, turn- 

 ing every verb after which it is put into a transitive or cau- 

 sative. It does the same in Ef., but is not so much used. 



