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Malagasy, azy Assyrian, assu 



Fate, sia „ assi (fern.) 



Fate, s „ s 



24. The Plural. 



The Separate Pronoun. 



Ambrym, mu Arabic, humu, hum 



Ambrym (dialect in Gabe- 



lentz), vu (in onu ri, vu 



ru, They two) 

 Anudha, eovu and eovu aki 

 Mahaga, maria (ma ria) 

 Malay, marika (ma rika) 

 Maori, wa-ima ? (§ 6) Heb., hem 



Fate (§ 6) s-emai, s-emani ? Ch., himo, himon 



For the commonest word for They in Oceanic, see § 7 

 (These, those). 



Eromanga, yoi'il, lei, irora Arabic, ola and olalik. (C 



elola, " originally a demon- 

 strative pronoun") 



Tanna, ila, ilia, iraha Hebrew, eleh 



Aneiteum, ara 



Tagala, sila 



Fate, nara 



Api, nala 



Paama, keila 



Mallicollo, kara 



Malagasy, izareo Ethiopic, elu 



Samoan, latou 



Maori, ratou 



Tongan, nau Mod. Syriac, ani 



Duauru, ne 



Notes on the Pronoun of the Third Person. 



a. The Oceanic singular common has for its characteristic 

 letter i, like the ancient Shemitic feminine, and not u, like 

 the ancient masculine. This is exactly paralleled by the 

 Mod. Syriac ani, which, though common (m. and f.), has the 

 i of the ancient fern., and not the u of the ancient masculine 

 — thus ani, They, Mod. S^^riac, common, derived or corrupted 



from ancient Sjriac \ ^^^^^ ' f f These, those. 



