Then said thus when he to them came down.—(l. [4022].)
In l. [2673] hem seems to stand for he + hem, they + them.
And hem ſeiden wið anſweren,[[60]]
And they to them said in answer.
The Southern me, one (Fr. on), is absent from this poem as well as from the Ormulum; its place is supplied by man and men[[61]] used with a verb in the singular number. ðe is frequently used as a relative pronoun as well as ðat, but uninflected; quo (who), quat (what), are interrogative; whether signifies which of two.
TABLE OF PRONOUNS.
| SINGULAR. | ||
| Nom. | Ic, I | ðu |
| Gen. | min | ðin |
| Dat. | me | ðe |
| Acc. | me | ðe |
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| DUAL. | PLURAL. | DUAL. | PLURAL. | |
| Nom. | wit | we | —— | ge |
| Gen. | —— | ure | gunker | gure |
| Dat. | —— | us | —— | gu |
| Acc. | unc | us | gunc | gu |
| SINGULAR. | ||||||
| Nom. | He | ge, ghe (sge, sche) | It | |||
| Gen. | His | Hire | Is, His | |||
| Dat. | Him | Hire | It | |||
| Acc. |
| Hire | It |
| PLURAL. | |||||
| Masc. | Neut. | Interrogative. | |||
| Nom. | He | It | Quo | ||
| Gen. | Here | Here |
| ||
| Dat. | Hem | It | —— | ||
| Acc. | Hem | It | Quam |