SINGULAR POSSESSIVE.

127. (1) The primarily atonic possessives come from the shorter Latin

forms. The original masculine singular forms of the first person were

displaced by mọs mọ, made on the analogy of tọs tọ, sọs sọ,

which come regularly from ✱_tŭs_ ✱_tŭm_, _sŭs_, _sŭm_; so in the

objective plural we find mọs, corresponding to tọs < ✱_tōs_, sọs <

_sōs_. _Mĕī_, _tŭī_, _sŭī_ gave męi, tọi tüi, sọi süi (§ 34), which,

however, were often replaced by the objective forms. ✱_Ma_ ✱_mam_

✱_mas_, ✱_ta_ ✱_tam_ ✱_tas_, _sa_ _sam_ _sas_ became ma mas, ta tas, sa

sas; ma, ta, sa often elided their a before a vowel. The formation of

_midons_ has been explained in § 91, (2); § 93, (2); § 118, (3): from

it came a feminine singular possessive mi, and, by analogy, ti and si.

(2) The forms are:--

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