LANGUAGES OF THE KILIMANJARO DISTRICT. 461 
masculine, feminine, and neuter endings of familiar 
Aryan languages, which modify the same root in a 
generic sense, and which are repeated in the dependent 
adjectives and pronouns. It is as much a concord as 
what strikes us so particularly in Bantu, only it takes 
the form of a suffix instead of a prefix. 
The personal pronouns in Masai are :— 
Sing. Plur.. 
1. nanu. lok. 
2. ie, or iy&, endai. 
3. ele (lie*, she, it). Vide demons, pron. Iculo. 
The 2nd person singular ie seems to he a some¬ 
what mutilated form. I fancy there are slight in¬ 
dications in the language of its once having had a 
masculine and feminine form, as in the Semitic 
tongues; possibly oiye , loiye (I'oiye is still used as a 
form of saluting males) for the masculine, and naiye 
for the feminine. The 2nd person plural seems to 
he of a feminine character, and to be composed of 
enda, demons, pron. fern.,“ that,” and ie or iye, “thou” 
—so that it would originally assume the meaning of 
“ you, there.” In Gala, all nouns, whether masculine 
or feminine, use the feminine pronoun, and are con¬ 
sidered to be in the feminine gender when used in a 
collective sense. 
Ele and Iculo, the 3rd pers. sing, and plur. are 
simply demonstrative pronouns, and when not standing 
with the verb would be common or masculine in 
gender. The female equivalents are ena and Jcuna. 
The objective forms of the personal pronouns are 
the corresponding pronouns and adjectives, as in such a phrase as 
this :— 
“ Ill// ancilla est bona.” Here the concord is as apparent as in the 
tongues we have been quoting. 
