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§ 64. pressed by Suffixes for the other persons (. They also appear, though rarely, in other connections.

§ 64. Enclitic forms of the 1st and 2nd pers. often coalesce with participles and,—though more rarely,—with adjectives; in such cases marked transformations occasionally occur. In particular in the plural, the first portion [i. e. the participle] loses its final n, while the second [the pronoun] loses its ḥ or a(n). In the 2nd pers. singular, the first portion always loses a short vowel before the final consonant. Thus with "killing" (f.  &c.);  "revealing";  "beautiful":  "clean":—

B. Rem. In more ancient times en or n appears also with the poets as an enclitic form of the 1st sing., and in fact this is often Errata: