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 used as nominative, but along with words of all persons and numbers; and not seldom it represents other cases also.

b. is also used as a stem in composition: thus,,. But itself (usually adjective: below, 516 e) has the same value in composition; and even its inflected forms are (in the older language very rarely) used as reflexive pronoun.

c. In RV. alone are found a few examples of two indefinite pronouns, (accentless) any, every, and  every, all.

514. a. The noun soul is widely employed, in the singular (extremely rarely in other numbers), as reflexive pronoun of all three persons.

b. The noun body is employed in the same manner (but in all numbers) in the Veda.

c. The adjective, f. , is used (as already pointed out: 456) in respectful address as substitute for the pronoun of the second person. Its construction with the verb is in accordance with its true character, as a word of the third person.

515. From pronominal roots and stems, as well as from the larger class of roots and from noun-stems, are formed by the ordinary suffixes of adjective derivation certain words and classes of words, which have thus the character of pronominal adjectives.

Some of the more important of these may be briefly noticed here.

516. Possessives. a. From the representative stems etc. are formed the adjectives, , , , , and , which are used in a possessive sense: relating to me, mine, and so on.

b. Other possessives are (also, RV.) and , from the genitives  and. And RV. has once.

c. An analogous derivative from the genitive is  (AV. etc.) descendant of such and such a one.

d. It was pointed out above (493) that the "genitives" and  are really stereotyped cases of possessive adjectives.