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.