The Pro n om ina Is. 



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used without the Preposition, leaving the other till the 

 Prepositions come to be considered : — 



(2) a. Fa., Mg., Ma. (and Sam.) prefix a, Amh. 7/a, as 



Fa. agu, Mg. ahy, Ma. akiv, Amhaiic yane, my, &c. 

 (5) n. Fa., Mg., and Tah. prefix oia, an, &c., Eth. enti., Tig. 



nat, and perhaps na, as Fa. amaic, Mg. nyahy, 



Tah. nau, Eth. entiaya, Tig. nati, my, &c. 

 (■i) I. Eromanga avi, Sam. ?ct, Ethiopic eli, as Ero. ariyau, 



Sam. Za'i^, Eth. e^iT/a, my ; Ero. arika, Sam. ^a/f, 



Eth. eliaka, thy, &c. 



(3) s. Tanna sa, Sam. sa, Ethiopic zi, as Ta. seiau, Sam. .sa'i6, 



Eth. ziaya, my, &c. 

 (7) t Eromanga e^e, Tah. ta, Mod. Syi\ c?, as Ero. etiyo, Tah. 

 to'i6, Slod. Syr. diyi, my; Ero. e^e^'o, Tah. ta oe, 

 Mod. Syr. diuh, thy, &c. 





§6. 



Interrogatives. 









a. 



What? 





Mg. 



My. 





Fa. (Pa.) 



Sam. (Ma.-Ha.) 



inona 



apa 





insifa 



ole a 



ino 



mana 





insa 



se a 



inona 



pa 





insifana 



Ma. ahOy, ha 



ino 



(in pabila) 



apa 



ona7ia 



insana 



sefe 



nafite 



Tah. eaha 

 Ha. he aha 









nefe 

 nojse 



Karat, eaa 









nefeha 

 Mota sava, sOj 











Epi aha or apa 

 Tanna nufe, tuf 

 An. inhe 



'e 



Stripping off the well-known articles and emphatics, we 

 find that there is in all these but one interrogative element : 

 thus Malay apa is the same as Ma. -Ha. aha, aa, a, and Fa. 

 nefe, Tanna nufe. An. inhe, is the same as Mg. ino, and 

 Fa. nife is the same as My. apa, as is more clearly seen by 

 stripping off the articles ne and a, which leaves fe =r 'pa = 

 what ? In like manner, Rarat. aa is the same as Mg. ioio, 

 An. inhe, of which the articles a and in being stripped off, 

 this is more evident in a = o = he =z what ? Mota sa, 

 article s and a =. what ? is by contraction for sava, as Fa. 

 ioisa, article ins and a — what ? is for insefa. Fa. nefe = 



