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'^104 DECLENSION [109A. Personal Pronouns.This class displays the greatest number of peculiarities :they are for each person derived from several roots orcombinations of roots ; they are specially irregular ininflexion :they do not distinguish gender, nor to someextent even number. Some resemble neuters in form ;a few have no apparent case-ending ;in two of them theA. pi. m. does duty as f. also.Singular.Plural.N. ah-am I tv-am thou vay-am ive yu-y-am " yeA. mam me ^^'" tv-am thee asman ^ us ynsman ^you[I. ma-y-a hy me tvaasma-bhis hyijItva-y-ausD. ma-hyam ' .] tu-bhyam ^to (asma-bhyam yusma-bhyamma-hya1 thee I for us for youAb. mad from me tvsidfrom thee asmad from yusmad fromusyouG. ma-ma of me tava of thee asmaka-m yusmaka-m*of usof youtheeL. m.a-Y-i in me itve^ .''^^ fasma-su'' in yusm6 in youm , .(tva-y-i 1 uslasm6®Cp. Lat. mihi and tibi.'*Only this, the normal form = ( tva-i), is found in the EV. Theirregular tvdyi appears in the later Samhitas.^asman and yusman ai'e new formations according to the nominaldeclension. The stems are compounds of the pronominal elementsa + sma and yu + sma. The VS. twice has the distinctlyf. new formationyusmas.*asmakam and yusmakam are properly the A. n. s. of the possessivesasmaka our, yusmaka your.^asmasu is a new formation following the analogy of asmabhis.6asme is also used as D.^Changed from original yus-am by the influence of vay-am.