Accidence
[§ 260
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lect speakers. Something similar to what has happened and still is happening in the modern dialects must also have taken place in the prehistoric and historic periods of all the Indg. languages; hence in the prehistoric forms of the pronouns given below it must not be assumed that they were the only ones existing in prim. Germanic. They are merely given as the nearest ascertainable forms from which the Gothic forms were descended.
260.
i. Personal.


FIRST PERSON.

SING.
DUAL.
PLUR.
Nom. ik, /
wit
weis
Ace. mik
ugkis
uns, unsis
Gen. meina
*ugkara
unsara
Oat. mis
ugkis
uns, unsis

SECOND PERSON.

Nom. þu, than
*jut
jus
Ace. þuk
igqis
izwis
Gen. þeina
igqara
iz wara
Dat. þus
igqis
izwis

THIRD PERSON.


SING.

Masc.
Neut.
Fern.
Norn, is, he
ita, it
si, she
Ace. ina
ita
ija
Gen. is
is
izōs
Dat. imma
imma
izái
PLUR.
Nom. eis Ace. ins Gen. izē Dat. im
*ijōs
ijōs
izō
im
*ija
*izē
im