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Par. 572.]

PR ONO lUNS.

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liable to confusion with " he " than " heo ") supplanted " heo " in the North, and subsequently also
in the South. Hence our " she."
In the same way "th'" supplanted " hi," and
made our " they;" "tha-m " supplanted " hem,"
and made our ' them;" "thara " supplanted * hira,"
and made our "their."
Note also the Instrumental form " the," which
still exists in our " Y'he sooner the better." See
Par 344.
572 Changes in the Relative Pronoun.
In the First Period " se " was the Definite Adjective, and "the" the Relative. Later,1 the form
" the " came to be used as the Definite Adjective,
and consequently ceased to be used as the Relative,
being supplanted by the heavier form " that" (the
Neuter), which had become the ordinary Relative
in the fourteenth century. When the need of a
Possessive and Objective Case for the Relative was
felt, the Possessive and Objective Cases of the Interrogative "whose" and "whom," were used as
early as the thirteenth century; but "who" was not
common as a Relative till three centuries later. As
to the way in which the Interrogative came to be
used Relatively, see Par. 27.
1 In the North, " the " appears early as the Definite Adjective
even in the tenth century.