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 e. Corresponding to (513) is the possessive, meaning own, as relating to all persons and numbers. The RV. has once the corresponding simple possessive of the second person, thy.

f. For the use of as reflexive pronoun, see above, 513 b.

g. All these words form their feminines in.

h. Other derivatives of a like value have no claim to be mentioned here. But (excepting ) the possessives are so rarely used as to make but a small figure in the language, which prefers generally to indicate the possessive relation by the genitive case of the pronoun itself.

517. By the suffix are formed from the pronominal roots, with prolongation of their final vowels, the adjectives  meaning of my sort, like me, etc. Of these, however, only the last three are in use in the later language, in the sense of tantus and quantus. They are inflected like other adjective stems in, making their feminines in (452 ff.).

a. Words of similar meaning from the roots and  are  and, inflected in the same manner: see above, 451.

518. The pronominal roots show a like prolongation of vowel in combination with the root see, look, and its derivatives  and (quite rarely) : thus,. They mean of my sort, like or resembling me, and the like, and and the following are not uncommon, with the sense of  and. The forms in are unvaried for gender; those in  (and ?) have feminines in.

519. From come  so many,  how many?  as many. They have a quasi-numeral character, and are inflected (like the numerals etc.: above, 483) only in the plural, and with the bare stem as nom. and accus.: thus, N.A. ; I. etc..

520. From (in V. and B.) and  come the comparatives and superlatives  and, and  and ; and from , the comparative. For their inflection, see below, 523.

521. Derivatives with the suffix, sometimes conveying a diminutive or a contemptuous meaning, are made from certain of the pronominal roots and stems (and may, according to the grammarians, be made from them all): thus, from ; from ; from ; from ; from.

a. For the numerous and frequently used adverbs formed from pronominal roots, see Adverbs (below, 1097 ff.).