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PERSONAL PRONOUNS Sing. 1. c. Lw (?) later wt. Pl. 1. c. n. Du. a. m. kw. 2. C. 1n. 2. C. tny.

f. tn. 3. m. *fy, surviving only 3. m. in, See also:

early lost, 3. c..fny. in a See also:

SPECIAL

special except as verbal See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form. suffix. f. *St surviving as 3. C. From these are derived the suffixes, which are shortened forms attached to nouns to See also:

EXPRESS (through the French from the past participle of the Lat. exprimere, to press out, by transference used of representing objects in painting or sculpture, or of thoughts, &c. in words)

express the possessor, and to verbs to express the subject. In the latter See also:

case the verb was probably in the participle, so that .fdmii-Ln, " they hear," is literally " See also:

HEARING (formed from the verb " to hear," O. Eng. hyran, heron, &c., a common Teutonic verb; cf. Ger. Koren, Dutch hooren, &c.; the O. Tent. form is seen in Goth. hausjan; the initial h makes any connexion with " ear," Lat. audire, or Gr. &Kobew very doub

hearing are they." The singular suffixes are: (I) c.-t; (2) M. -k, f. -t; (3) m. -f, f.

-S;—the dual and plural have no special forms. Another See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of See also:

ABSOLUTE (Lat. absolvere, to loose, set free)

absolute pronouns is: (2) m. Iwt, tw; f. tmt, tm; (3) m. fwt, t!w; f. slt, it. Of these twt, tint, &c., are emphatic forms. Many of the above absolute pronouns were almost obsolete even in the Old See also:

KINGDOM

Kingdom. In See also:

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary texts some survive, especially as See also:

OBJECTS

objects of verbs, namely, wi, tw, tn, sw, st. The suffixes of all See also:

numbers and persons except the dual were in full use throughout, to Coptic; sn, however, giving way to a new suffix, -w, which See also:

DEVELOPED

developed first in the New Kingdom. Another absolute pronoun of the first See also:

PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person is See also:

INK (from Late Lat. encaustum, Gr. gysavorov, the purple ink used by Greek and Roman emperors, from iyKaiew, to burn in)

ink, APfOK, like Heb. tut. It is associated with a series for the second and third persons: nt-k, nt-t, nt f, nt-in, &c.; but from their See also:

HISTORY

history, use and form, it seems probable that the last are of later formation, and are not to be connected with the Semitic pronouns (chiefly of the 2nd person) resembling them.

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