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 THE IXDIAX ANTIQUARY. [Txhkitast, IB70. have recourse to comhinatiana of dtrmonstrativo foots, the personal signiticatien whereof is rather accidental than natural. Tins becomes clear from the analysts of •», «*, 15 1, the organic form Of all of which is tnrmm, meaning literally ' it 5fwi (tri) it jt^m, 7^ is composed ofrrr>rn, w qui (*tt) id* Let ub odd that the comploto form of those pronomiy is pj {-=«), pa. Tho final i is radical., as fa proved by the plural tmn, tens*, ps* common to all the Semitic lan- guages, and whore, the j has maintained itself under tho form of n. For the second piston the originality uf tho 2 becomes also evident by comparing the poHseasivc suffix -j * /A u#,' although lino original -pi* exists only in Kgyptian ; E3 ot (Huh 450, 8) *pasuit mmdfiH, i)h«hi' t=3 sfe (*£. 437,&)>wm'J «0Mbm' (jul [<:>!) fcfont is, and jo* from y^-jivi ' » qm («f) id, Slew*/ lastly ma* from vrmm ' U qu!(c«t) idem qui + j.L' In consequence i*if the too Impersonal locuf inns of tho inscriptions, it is imponriblu to ascertain wheil tor the Hebrew form of the first person ■»*, «a» (p*)wMinusoaiiiuujjrtbuSalMcanj! + TJii • |,i- ;, rd imprubeblo, bticauMe these forma are also unusual in the cognate languages. A« for us tho second person is concern**!, it could not he different from the form rw, t family, Tfcfl isolated pronoun of the third per- eon i* identical with the demonstrative m (hsi), but it is not known whether tho feminine wafl m (tm), as in the sister languages, or whether it resemble' 1 r!n- il-'iuoustrntive form nvi peculiar to the Sobsain, The maseii lino plural on occurs in several passages (JSTol. 4-10, 2; ib. 3-M, 13; 346, 4), und the analogy of thu other Scmilio languages presupposes the certain esdsteaco of the compound p (= F u? 4 ) for the feminine. No possessive suffixes except those of tho th ird person are to be met with : tt for the singular masculine, and c for the same in the Ifimean dia- lect; the i often disappears in writingt tin (Or, L I), icw (Hal. m t I), pn (flat, 187, 2) *bifl son, exactly like the Persian J* in J&j^fe tctb (0*, xnx* 7) 'his eye' the second i is re. dnndant. No example of the feminine exists, as inPersku, and perhaps acta overdid, ulthqngh Ealc'vy say* it must certainly Imvu been rr, rr« Instead of the simple w, somBtimes c, en, j, p occur: rtcra = rtcm {(k. u h) 'in hi ro- qnest-,' parr ran cnopi *&w n& {Hat, 47% 10) 'may Iuh country (Ift. earth), his people, and bis town perish {Hi, die).' This infcerestiog form, which it is impossible to take for a pltual luffix, mnst be considered as composed of x* prolonged by means of the particles a and > respectively serving as tho Indefinite and the definite article. Tito same occurs here and there in Hebrew, where is*, urcg occur for w and for no. This in confirmed also in Phumtuian ; for which nee SchJottmann in Z, d. D, M. O, 1870 p. m, do. Lfot of the Pronouns fe&m Salman tmt*. Dtmowtrative Prenoutif, Singular. PlttraL t ». nf/. this, *w, n^ ntm theso. fi this, fm. Kt, tm tout, p thoso, P tll «fc. d, ncn those. 3 tllllt. Interrogative Frenaun*. p, ji who ? noj ( = ) what ? Tifhttivo i'rwwuax, % rl ho who, of, from, nn/. she who, of; Irom- ti he of, ho from. Si ha who, LolaUd Fmaml Frmcmns. vn ho. en they. Btijfijud Fcrsomtl I'rmQun*.
 * common in tho Semitic
 * , = >his.

be their. Dual r *ort. iVumeratt, .If^a^Mre*, an J nhronofogy, Tho Snbcean like the Arabia niuncruht have a double form, thu ono being the simple radical word, and tho otin | > ting, as in certain Arabio numbers, tho addition of a n in tho mascuhne, whilat reserving tho simplu form for the feminine : — 1 tw (Hal. 446, 3,J nm (Hal. 508, 2,) rvK(HaL667,l'3.) rrw(N.H. i,) 9 <tfi(Hai.8*3,4sWr.&)<ftii (Hat. 509, 6.) ■ftn (Hal. 667, 8.)