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d. Comparison — Who ? 

 Mg. My. Fa. (Pa.) Sam. (Ma.-Ha.) 



me, ha, fei, vai, \ for 'incti = Heb. mi (for raai = 



lucd, ai J what, h e, or she ? what, he, or she ?) 



sei, ise, iza, "> with (3) article cf. Heb. ^^e/i mi = this, who? 

 sapa, zovy J s prefixed 



mana Mod. Arb. man, Ch. man 



Sab. man, ban, or van 



Who ? plural : see I. §§ 6, 7, 24. 



Ero. TYie-e-me 



Ma. 'i(;ai mc6 cf Heb. mi hemah = who, they ? 



Fa. se m.ei, se m^ani 



Fa. ^ictrct fei, nara sei Arah. alainan = these, who ? 



Santo TO se 



§ 7. Indefinites. 



a. In the Oceanic-Semitic, the interrogatives (1) in §6, 

 single or re-duplicated, and with or without prefixed or 

 suffixed emphatics, are used as indefinites, or relative 

 indefinites, signifying '' what," " that, which," " whatever," 

 '' some," " of what kind soever," " something," " somewhere," 

 &c.; and " whoever," &c., thus : — 



Ma. aha, My. apa, Fa. sefa Heb. mah, Arb. ma 

 Fa. iinatima, fatuna Ch. m^ah, mahcli 



Syr. myedem 

 My. apaapa Heb. m^euonah 



Mg. na inona na inona 

 My. TYiana Syr. m.ono, Amh. Qnene 



So the personal interrogative who ? is used indefinitely in the 

 sense of " whoever," " some one," "some," "any one," thus : — 



Fa. se, Mota isei Heb, mi 



Mg. nazovy nazovy, na iza 



na iza 

 My. siapa siapa 

 My. 7)iana Arb. "tnan 



In the Oceanic-Semitic, many other pronominals, indefi- 

 nites, &c., are formed from the seven demonstrative elements 

 in §§ 1, 2. As usual, in this also the Oc. has greater variety. 



h. But very remarkable, and worthy of special notice, is 

 the use of the above {a) indefinite (1) after the verb, which is 



