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Pronoun. 
*r, ‘ i,* 
vr, ‘ 1/ 
fiT, ‘ thou,’ 
‘ thou,’ 
‘ self’ (Sal. 18) 
T, ‘ this,’ 
%, * that,’ 
‘ who,’ 
W, ‘ that,’ 
%, ‘ who ?’ 
Possessive. 
‘my.’ 
* my.’ 
rfK, ‘thy.’ 
?fhfC, cfNrc, ‘ thy.’ 
‘ own.’ 
W, ‘ of this.’ 
* of that.’ 
‘ whose.’ 
TT^TT, ‘ of that.’ 
‘whose?’ 
The last five are not properly possessive pronouns, but are regular 
genitives formed by adding the genitive postposition to the pronominal 
bases %, *T, ?l, and respectively. As, however, in their adoption of 
an oblique base they run exactly on all fours with the true possessive pro¬ 
nouns, it is convenient at present to consider them also as such. 
All these possessives are used as genitives of the various corresponding 
pronouns, and are usually considered as such. Thus iin; is said to be the 
genitive of iT, of ^ff, '3pq*r of and so on. 
All these possessive pronouns have an oblique form, formed by 
shortening the antepenultimate or penultimate, and lengthening the final 
vowel to ^T. Thus, 
Possessive. 
Oblique. 
trc, 
WKT. 
rfr^FT, 
rfr^T. 
^farcr. 
frqf^T. 
This oblique form is used for two purposes. 
A, as a true oblique genitive. 
B, as a declensional oblique base. 
A, as a true oblique genitive. 
Examples. STC ^ ‘in my house.’ (Sal. 19). 
^nr«TT i?" ‘in one’s own hovel.’ (Sal. 20). 
‘the mare of his own riding.’ (Sal. 21). 
Occasionally the direct form is used instead of the oblique, as (Sal. 17). 
‘a bond of my own chastity’ (ib.). 
