[lit-ideas] Re: grades & kleenex
- From: andy amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 21:57:07 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
Wow. I missed it by a country mile. And I like entymology too. Thanks for
straightening mio out.
A.A.
-----Original Message-----
From: Harold Hungerford <hh@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: May 7, 2004 9:10 PM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: grades & kleenex
No. No. No. In Old English (449-1066+), the third-person pronoun
declensions went like this (the order is nominative, genitive, dative,
accusative):
Masculine: he / his / him / hine (now he / his / him / him)
Feminine: hio or heo / hire /hire / hie (now she / her / her / her)
Neuter: hit / his / him/ hit (now it / it / its / it)
Plural: hie / hira / him / hie (now they / their /
them / them)
Spellings vary according to the regional dialect. But it's obvious that
the whole system is potentially unstable.
Harold Hungerford
On May 7, 2004, at 5:46 PM, andy amago wrote:
So if I understand correctly, there was no subjective form of the
feminine pronoun, just the objective? If so, wouldn't that be the same
thing, not to be able to say she as distinct from he? Wait, wait,
don't tell me. I got it. There was only one form. She as distinct
from her. So her picked berries in the woods. So did him pick berries
in the woods too?
I'm being a regular BOME head tonight.
A.A.
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