122. Latin _mē_ ＞ mẹ, _mī_ ＞ mi, _nōs_ ＞ nọs; _tē_ ＞ tẹ, ✱_tī_ ＞
ti, _vōs_ ＞ vọs; _sē_ ＞ sẹ, ✱_sī_ ＞ si. Me mi, te ti, se si, used as
proclitics before a vowel, or as enclitics after a vowel, were reduced
to m, t, s: m’ama, t’apela, s’es; o͡m, be͡t, cosi͡s. Nọs and vọs,
used as enclitics after a vowel, became respectively ns and us; que͡ns,
no͡us; _sī vōs_ ＞ sius, later sieus (§ 32). The forms (all objective)
for the first and second persons and for the third person reflexive
are, then:--
FIRST PERSON SECOND PERSON THIRD PERSON (REFLEXIVE)
_Sg._: mẹ mi m tẹ ti t sẹ si s
_Pl._: nọs ns vọs us sẹ si s
The pronouns of the first and second persons could, of course,
be used reflexively.
123. The conjunctive forms of the third person (not reflexive) come
in the main from the proclitic _ĭlle_: _ĭllī_, _ĭllum_, _illōrum_
(✱_illūrum_), _ĭllos_, _ĭlla_, _ĭllas_ became respectively li or lhi,
lo, lọr (lür), lọs, la, las. When used proclitically or enclitically,
under the conditions described in § 118, (1), li (lhi), lo, los were
reduced to l (lh), l, ls; and l was sometimes vocalized. O ＜ _hŏc_ was
employed also, meaning ‘it.’ The adverb _ĭnde_ became ẹnt ẹn n (and,
through the analogy of me m, te t, se s, also ne), which was often used
as a pronoun with the sense ‘of it’, ‘of them’, sometimes ‘of him’,
‘of her’; nọs ẹn ＞ nọn, vọs ẹn ＞ vọn. The adverb _hīc_ became i,
meaning ‘here’ or ‘there,’ which served also as a dative pronoun, ‘to
it,’ ‘to them’; it was then always an enclitic, forming a diphthong
with a preceding vowel; it regularly took the place of li in the
constructions lọi = lo li, lai = la li. The forms are:--