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 OF SUBSTANTIVE PRONOUNS. 81

The initial ^ of this pronoun is constantly written ooo, in tho common dialect.

M. % F. - Y N. G. D. ef>oe3 ........... ............... o&^ca ....................... to off. Ace. e>oel ...................... ..^c3 ....................... a//. Ab. Af. * F. ^-. N. ^o&&*> ...................... "."8^.....; .................... a few. G. ^oe3. . r > o^e3^x)' r _ M r > ^c^..r ) ^ci3cSx)^l ofafeio. D. ^025631 ..... ................... Ace. Ab. r^o^^er 6 - -^^ - ^....r^c^S .. er- ^^ . ^, ^ a few*

INTERROGATIVE.

M. <^ F. N. N. ^o2SftX3 ........... .. .............. cOSK ........................... hoiotnany? G. ^o2SeS..e<. ......................... tco ...................... ^o w many ? Ab. <^o^e3 .. er*. ^^ . ^ .. . . $&j L C*3er*-l5tf-$'*. . in & AOMJ mawy ?. ^

The initial <>J of this pronoun is, in the common dialect, converted into c3o. 274

None of the foregoing pronouns of the third person can be used more than once in a sentence, with reference to the same person or thing. If I say, ~^c<5& he, "ofr^oQ i, e^* with his father, S^-SV^'^'C^b has come, 1 should not be understood to express that he (the third person) has come with his own father, but that he (the third person) has come with the father of a fourth. If I ask SX<&> Soooo^is^awiyc-a* did he go to his liouse ? I ask whether he (the third person) went to the house of another, not whether he went to his own house-