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Par. 569.] NO UNS AND PRONO UNS..309
PRONOUNS.
SINGULAR.
(I) (Thou) (He) (She) (It)
Nom. Ic thu 5 he heo'1 hit
Gen. min 2 thin 2 his 2 hire 2 his
Dat. me the him 2 hire 2 him
Acc. meC,3 me thec,3 the hine hi hit
PLURAL.
Nom. we ge hi
Gen. user, uires eower2 hira (heora)
Dat. us eow hem 4 (heom)
Acc. UfisC,3 fis eowic,3 eow hi
She is an altered form of the Old Feminine Definite Adjective,
Seo, or sio.
2 Hence we see the origin of the Possessive Adjectives "1mine
(my)," "thine (thiy)," "1her," "6our," &c. Also we see the Dative
origin of " hi-in," "1he-r."
Note also that he, heo, hit Was really a Demonstrative Adjective.
Cf. the Latin is, ea, id. He means "that man "; heo mneamis
"that woman."
3Chiefly Northumbrian forms. The substitution of they (= thai,
th&) for hi is (ins to.Northumbrian influence.
4 In the Elizabethan dramatists, and even in Pope, we often find
'em printed with ai Apostrophe, as though it were a contraction for
them. But thuis is not so: it represents the Old English hemz. See
Dr. Morris's Accidence, Par. 160.
5 Thiou was discarded as being discourteous, and was replaced by
you. See Shakspearian Grammar, Pars. 231-35.