A Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India v2.c12.s2.92

v2.c12.s2.92

Into the intricate changes rendered necessary by the addition of these suffixes in the terminating vowels of nouns, etc., it is not necessary here to enter. मि is undoubtedly the Pr. gen. मे, and is still sounded me in Pushtu, but m in Persian; इ from Pr. ते by elision of त, so also the third person सि from से. In the plural, ॐ or हं, which appears to be used only with pronouns, is by Trumpp referred to the Pr. form अम्हे (rather अम्हे), which, however, hardly accounts for the anunâsika: a more probable origin would be from अम्हाणं, reduced to अंहां, and thus to हीं and हं; the second person व recalls Pr. वो, and the third person नि from इणाणं, a Pr. gen. pl. of the base इन, which we have already seen is substituted for that of the near demonstrative used as a third person.