(5) The forms are, therefore, the following:—
| MASCULINE | FEMININE | NEUTER | ||
| Sg. | { nom.: | ẹl ẹu ẹlh il ilh | ẹla ẹlha ilh il ilhi ili | ẹl lọ |
| { obj.: | lüi lü ẹl ẹlh | lęis lięis lięs lęi lięi lę ẹla li lüi lü | ǫ | |
| Pl. | { nom.: | il ilh ẹl ẹlh ẹli | ẹlas ẹlhas | |
| { obj.: | lọr lür ẹls ẹus ẹlhs | lọr lür ẹlas ẹlhas |
In many texts the objective forms ẹls ẹlhs, lęis lęi are used in the nominative. We then find occasionally a new objective, ẹlses.
Possessives.
126. Beside mĕus mĕa, tŭus tŭa, sŭas sŭa, there existed in popular Latin the shorter forms ✱mĕs? ✱ma, ✱tŭs ✱ta, sŭs sa. Of the two forms vĕster and vŏster, only the latter was used. To supply the lack of a third person possessive denoting a plural possessor, illōrum came to be employed as a possessive.
Singular Possessive.
127. (1) The primarily atonic possessives come from the shorter Latin forms. The original masculine singular forms of the first person were displaced by mọs mọ, made on the analogy of tọs tọ, sọs sọ, which come regularly from ✱tŭs ✱tŭm, sŭs, sŭm; so in the objective plural we find mọs, corresponding to tọs ＜ ✱tōs, sọs ＜ sōs. Mĕī, tŭī, sŭī gave męi, tọi tüi, sọi süi (§ [34]), which, however, were often replaced by the objective forms. ✱Ma ✱mam ✱mas, ✱ta ✱tam ✱tas, sa sam sas became ma mas, ta tas, sa sas; ma, ta, sa often elided their a before a vowel. The formation of midons has been explained in § [91], (2); § [93], (2); § [118], (3): from it came a feminine singular possessive mi, and, by analogy, ti and si.
(2) The forms are:—
| FIRST PERSON | SECOND PERSON | THIRD PERSON | |||||||||||||
| Sg. | { nom.: | mọs | ma | mi | tọs | ta | ti | sọs | sa | si | |||||
| { obj.: | mọ | mọn | ma | mi | tọ | tọn | ta | ti | sọ | sọn | sa | si | |||
| Pl. | { nom.: | me̯i | mọs | mas | tọi | tüi | tọs | tas | sọi | süi | sọs | sas | |||
| { obj.: | mọs | mas | tọs | tas | sọs | sas | |||||||||