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The Pronouns
XXXV
The forms are:
KD.
M.
O.N.
Dai.
Mid.
Sing. 1.
ai, ay
ai, ay
ya-ndi
oi
2.
e-r
i-r
eipcry
a-ndi
i-n
3.
te-r
ta-r
T<xpOV
td-ndi
o-n
Plur. 1.
a-r
u
ep-, O7T-
a-ndi
a-nga or a-di
2.
i-r
u-r
OTTpOT
ir-ndi
u-mi
3.
ti-r
te-r
vepoT
ti-ndi
u-na
Compare in the Nilotic languages :
Tabi.
/SThZZwA;.
Dinka.
Kunama.
a-ne
ya-n
ge-n
a-ba
d-ne
yi-n
yi-n
e-na
i-ne
ge-n
ye-n
u-nu
a-gan
wa-n
go-k
a-me
o-gan
wn-n
we-k
e-me
e-gen
ge-n
ke-k
i-me
and the Barea singular forms :
1. a-g,
2. e-nga, 3.
tb-b.
Note. With regard to the suffixes given above, it may be pointed out that
Nubian like many other languages, conjugates a root frequently both as a noun and
as a verb. (Compare present-day English ‘tunnelled’, ‘voiced’, &c.) Verbs are thus
regarded not so much as names of actions but as names of things in action. The
numerals, which are cognate with those of the other Nilotic languages, still retain
the terminal copula (s. p. xl) varying regularly with dialect; so, too, do numerous
adjectives possess a terminal copula. The terminal -r of some of the dialects, or -n
of others, seen in the table above, may therefore have had a copulative meaning, and
the forms originally stood for ‘ it is I ’, ‘ it is thou ’, &c.
(&) Demonstrative Pronouns.
The Nubian demonstratives are :
in. KDM. pl. in-gu, ein O.N. this
man KDM. pl. man-gu, mmi O.N. that
A variant el this also occurs.
The form man that is possibly m-an woZ this, just as we have in, iyin right, en to
be, esk can, ar get and mayin left, m-en not to be, m-esk be unable, m-ar not to find.
Reinisch would, however, regard it as a compound form ma-n, ma-in of which
the first part is cognate with the Saho-'Afar ama.
in this is cognate in Hamitic with Agau (Bil. ina, Qu. Agm. en, Dembea in.
Kham, yen); and Kafa hin, Bed. tin (for hun), Som. kan, Galla kana may be
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XXXV
The forms are:
KD.
M.
O.N.
Dai.
Mid.
Sing. 1.
ai, ay
ai, ay
ya-ndi
oi
2.
e-r
i-r
eipcry
a-ndi
i-n
3.
te-r
ta-r
T<xpOV
td-ndi
o-n
Plur. 1.
a-r
u
ep-, O7T-
a-ndi
a-nga or a-di
2.
i-r
u-r
OTTpOT
ir-ndi
u-mi
3.
ti-r
te-r
vepoT
ti-ndi
u-na
Compare in the Nilotic languages :
Tabi.
/SThZZwA;.
Dinka.
Kunama.
a-ne
ya-n
ge-n
a-ba
d-ne
yi-n
yi-n
e-na
i-ne
ge-n
ye-n
u-nu
a-gan
wa-n
go-k
a-me
o-gan
wn-n
we-k
e-me
e-gen
ge-n
ke-k
i-me
and the Barea singular forms :
1. a-g,
2. e-nga, 3.
tb-b.
Note. With regard to the suffixes given above, it may be pointed out that
Nubian like many other languages, conjugates a root frequently both as a noun and
as a verb. (Compare present-day English ‘tunnelled’, ‘voiced’, &c.) Verbs are thus
regarded not so much as names of actions but as names of things in action. The
numerals, which are cognate with those of the other Nilotic languages, still retain
the terminal copula (s. p. xl) varying regularly with dialect; so, too, do numerous
adjectives possess a terminal copula. The terminal -r of some of the dialects, or -n
of others, seen in the table above, may therefore have had a copulative meaning, and
the forms originally stood for ‘ it is I ’, ‘ it is thou ’, &c.
(&) Demonstrative Pronouns.
The Nubian demonstratives are :
in. KDM. pl. in-gu, ein O.N. this
man KDM. pl. man-gu, mmi O.N. that
A variant el this also occurs.
The form man that is possibly m-an woZ this, just as we have in, iyin right, en to
be, esk can, ar get and mayin left, m-en not to be, m-esk be unable, m-ar not to find.
Reinisch would, however, regard it as a compound form ma-n, ma-in of which
the first part is cognate with the Saho-'Afar ama.
in this is cognate in Hamitic with Agau (Bil. ina, Qu. Agm. en, Dembea in.
Kham, yen); and Kafa hin, Bed. tin (for hun), Som. kan, Galla kana may be
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