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CHAPTER V

THE PERSONAL pronOUNS

-- 297 _I, we, us, me, thou, ye_--These constitute the true personal pronouns Froender

These latter words are delish true personal pronouns for the first two persons only

In other languages the current pronouns of the third person are, as in English, demonstrative rather than personal

The usual declension of the personal pronouns is exceptionable _I_ and _ical relations to each other

The true view of the words is, that they are not irregular but defective

_I_ has no _oblique_, and _me_ no nominative case And so with respect to the rest

_I_, in Gero], and _ego_ of the classical languages; _ego_ and [Greek: ego] being, like _I_, defective in the oblique cases

_My_, as stated above, is a forenitive sense

_Me_--In Anglo-Saxon this was called a dative forrow out of an accusative fored to the pronouns _lo-Saxons _mec_, _ec_, _meh_, _eh_, but from the Icelandic _mik_, _ik_, and the German _mich_, _dich_ This accounts for the for_ are allied That both _me_ and _my_ can be evolved froes, where, very often even in the sa_ is pronounced both _mey_ and _mee_ {244}

_We_ and _our_--These words are not in the condition of _I_ and _h the fact be obscured, they are really in an etyical relation to each other This we infer from the alliance between the sounds of _w_ and _ou_, and from the Danish forms _vi_ (_we_), _vor_ (_our_) It enitive rather than an adjectival for the part, not of a case, but of an independent word Upon this, however, too much stress cannot be laid In Danish it takes a neuter form: _vor_=_noster_; _vort_=_nostruenitive _nostrum_, but with the adjective _noster_

_Us, we, our_--Even _us_ is in an etyical relation to _we_ That _we_ and _our_ are so, has just been shown Now in Anglo-Saxon there were two forms of _our_, _viz_, _ure_ (=_nostrum_), and _user_ (=_noster_) This connects _we_ and _us_ through _our_

Froes in form of the true personal pronouns, as follows:--

1ST PERSON

_1st Terular_)

_I_ Undeclined

_2nd Terular number_)

Acc _Me_ Gen _My_ Form in _n_--_Mine_

_3rd Term_ (_for the plural number_)

Nom _We_ Acc _Us_ Form in _r_--_Our_, _ours_

2ND PERSON

_1st Terular number_)

Nom _Thou_ Acc _Thee_ Gen _Thy_ Form in _n_--_Thine_