_Simple._ _Emphatic._ _Simple._ _Emphatic._ _Singular._ _Plural._ 1. Mo, _my_, mo mhac-sa 1. Ar, _our_, ar mac-ne 2. Do, _thy_, do ----sa 2. Bhur, 'ur, _your_, bhur ----sa 3. { A, _his_, a mhac-sa, san} 3. An, am, _their_, an, am ----sa, san { A, _her_, a mac-sa, san }
If the noun be followed by an adjective, the emphatic syllable is affixed to the adjective; as, do làmh gheal-sa _thy white hand_.
The possessive pronouns mo, do, when followed by a vowel, commonly lose the _o_, whose absence is marked by an apostrophe; as, m' aimn _my name_; d' athair[42] _thy father_. The same pronouns when preceded by the preposition ann _in_, suffer a transposition of their letters, and are written am, ad, one broad vowel being substituted for another, as, ann ad chridhe _in thy heart_, 1 Sam. xiv. 7, ann am aire _in my thoughts_.
The possessive pronoun a _his_, is often suppressed altogether after a vowel; as, na sanntaich bean do choimhearsnaich, no oglach, no bhanoglach, no dhamh, no asal, _covet not thy neighbour's wife, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant_, &c., Exod. xx. 17. In these and similar instances, as the tense is but imperfectly expressed (especially when the noun begins with a vowel), and cannot be gathered with certainty from any other part of the sentence, perhaps it might { 64} be an improvement to retain the pronoun, even at the expense of cutting off the final vowel of the preceding word; as, n' a oglach, n' a bhanoglaich, &c. In many cases, however, this appears hardly practicable; as, cha bheo athair _his father is not alive_, which could not with any propriety be written cha bheo a athair[43].
The word fein corresponding to the English words _self_, _own_, is subjoined occasionally both to the personal and possessive pronouns: thus mi fein _myself_, mise fein _I myself_, thu fein _thyself_, thusa fein _thou thyself_, or _thy own self_, mo shluagh fein _my own people_.
_Relative._ _Demonstrative._ _Interrogative._ _N._ A, _who_, _which_, So, _this_, _these_. Co? _who?_ _that_. _G.&D._ An. Sin, _that_, _those_. Cia? _which?_ Nach, _who not_, Sud[44], ud, _yon_. Ciod, creud? _what?_ _which not_, Na, _that which_, _what_[45].
_Indefinite._ _Compound._ Eigin, _some_. E so, _this one_, m. E sud, _yon one_, m. Ge b'e } _whoever_[46]. I so, _this one_, f. I sud, _yon one_, f. Cia b'e } { 65} Eile, _other_. Iad so, _these_. Iad sud, _yon_, pl. Gach, } _each_, } E sin, _that one_, m. Cach eile, _the rest_. Cach, } _every_[47]. } Cach, _others, the rest_. Iad sin, _those_. Cach a chéile, Cuid, _some_. _each other_[48].