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Rh Such Interjections are  (§ 9),  "O!" , "O!";  "Ah!";  "Ho! Ho!" (in mockery), &c. Also the demonstrative form "Here!" "Lo!", which is greatly employed in the formation of Pronouns and Adverbs, is to be regarded as originally an interjection.

§ 63. (a) Subject-Forms.

On "he is",  "she is" v. § 38.

Rem. The form ,—(originally anaḥnån, but in our literature certainly no longer of three syllables, indeed seldom having two as ånaḥnan, and commonly being monosyllabic in speech, and merely a remnant of early orthography for, ),—is found only in old manuscripts.

,, besides representing enclitic Subject-forms or Copula-forms ( sq.), represent also for the 3rd pers. pl. the Object, which is ex-