Wilson Philological Lectures on Sanskrit and the Derived Languages c8.72

c8.72

The pronoun of the first person has, according to Vararuchi, the following bases:—हं or अहं and म from the Sanskrit singulars, मम the gen. sing., अम्ह from अस्म and णे from नस्, of which अम्ह is used in the plural. Hemachandra adds मह and मज्झ from मह्यम्, and मे from म्हे or स्मे. He also gives अम्हि, अम्मि, and स्मि for the nom. sing. and अस्मि for the acc. sing. The first is clearly from अस्मि 1st pers. sing. present of अस्, often used in Sanskrit as an indeclinable particle; and the others are also corruptions of the same just as the termination स्मि of the loc. is a corruption of स्मन्. The singular forms, therefore, are:—अम्मि, स्मि, अम्हि, हं, अहं, अहयं nom.; णे, णं, मि, अम्मि, अम्ह, म्ह, मं, ममं, मिमं, अहं acc.; मि, मे, ममं, ममए, ममाइ, मइ, मयइ, णे, instr.; मइत्तो-दो-दु-ओ-उ-हि-हिन्तो, ममत्तो &c., महत्तो &c., मज्झत्तो &c., abl., मे, मइ, मम, मह, महं, मज्झ, मज्झं, अम्ह, अम्हं gen.; मि, मइ, ममाइ, मए, मे, अम्हम्मि, ममम्मि, महम्मि, loc. The plurals are:—अम्ह, अम्हे, अम्हो, मो, वयं, मे, nom., अम्हे, अम्हो, अम्ह, णे, acc.; अम्हेहिं, अम्हाहि, अम्ह, अम्हे, णे instr.; ममत्तो, अम्हत्तो, ममाहिन्तो-सुन्तो, अम्हाहिन्तो-सुन्तो, ममेसुन्तो, अम्हेसुन्तो abl., णे, णे, मज्झ, अम्ह, अम्हं, अम्हे, अम्हो, अम्हाण, ममाण, म्हाण, मज्झाण gen., अम्ह-म्हा-म्हेसु-मम-मेसु, मह-हेसु, मज्झ-ज्झेसु loc. Here also the same observations as those made in the case of the last pronoun are applicable.