8 The Oceanic Languages Semitic: 



shortened form of the personal pronoun, third singular, 

 and so, of course, in Tah. e (a). Maori a, Samoan i (with 

 pronouns), San Christoval a, e, i, Mg. i, and My, a, in aku, I 

 (and apa, what ? ) So Heb. ha, Phen. a, Syr. a, Sabaean hu, 

 Eth. and Amharic u (Halevy YI.), Mod. Syr. o, 6, are all 

 shortened forms (Halevy) of the pronoun of the third person 

 singular, which in Heb. is hua, hia. In Syr., Sab., Eth., and 

 Amh., it is suffixed, in Heb. and Phen., prefixed. Eth. like 

 Malay, uses no prefixed article^ but uses for the article 

 sometimes uHu, which is identical with Malay itu, also in 

 like manner used for the article : see for Eth., Dillm., Gr., 

 § 172 a, and note ; and for Malay, above, § 33 b. The 

 common Semitic pronominal article gm, in, is the common 

 Pa. and Mg. article, not only with pronouns, but nouns, as 

 an, ni, ny, in, na. What in Arb. is al (le), the article is 

 also in Samoan the article le. Thus to exhibit the foregoing 

 tabularly : — 



Articles Prefixed. 



(7) Tah. te (Rarat. te) Syr. de (below § 5, h) 



(2) Fa. e, a, Sam. o Heb. ha 



San Christoval e, i, a Phen. a 



Tah. e. Ma. o Mod. Syr. o, e 



My. a, Mg. i 



(4) Sam. le Ai'b. al (le) 



{5)FR.in,ni,na,Mg.ny,ccn Heb., «Sz;c. an, in 

 Tag. cong (cm). Article 

 and Relative of Java 

 iiig in ingkang. Rela- 

 tive and Article. 



It must be remembered that, though these articles on 



both sides are undoubtedly identical etymologically, that 



does not imply that they are nsecl identically in all points, 



and in fact they are not. The Mg. an is found, like the 



Heb. ccn, used with the pronouns in hianao (anao) thou, 



thee, hianario (anario) ye, and in anay, us. Anareo is for 



ankareo, and this has exactly the same elements as Amharic 



alanta, ye {tc(j being same as ka, by interchange of t 



nd k), for ala = reo (areo) = these : see I. The placing of 



he plural demonstrative before (Amh.) or after (Mg.) 



he personal pronoun is a mere matter of syntactical 



transposition. 



