Opuscula. Essays, Chiefly Philological And Ethnographical
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How tho- roughly the sound of m runs through the Gothic, Slavonic, and Iranian tongues as the sign of the pronoun of the first person singular, in the oblique cases ; how regularly a mo- dification of t, s, or th , appears in such words as tu , 6v, thou , &c. ! Now this constancy of the Pronoun exists in most languages ; but not in an equally palpable and manifest form. It is disguised in several ways. Sometimes , as in the Indo- European tongues, there is one root for the nominative and one fo...r the oblique cases; sometimes the same form, as in the Finlandic, runs through the whole declension; sometimes, as when we say you for thou in English, one number is sub- stituted for another; and sometimes, as when the German says sie for thou, a change of the person is made as well. When languages are known in detail, these complications can be guarded against ; but where the tongue is but imper- fectly exhibited a special analysis becomes requisite. Generally, the first person is more constant than the se- cond, and the second than the third; indeed, the third is frequently no true personal pronoun at all, but a demon- strative employed to express the person or thing spoken of as the agent or object to a verb.
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