Chapter III. Morphology

I. The Noun; Pronouns
§35. The Suffix Pronouns

As the name implies, these forms are attached to the end of various forms as subjects or objects.
§36. Uses: (a) After prepositions; e.g. ero.k ‘To thee’, na.n ‘For us’, mmw.tn ‘With you’, 4aro.3 ‘To him’, nmma.s ‘With her’.
§37. (b) As subject of verbal auxiliaries; e.g. a.3.`oo.s ‘He said it’, ne.n.swtm ‘We were hearing’, mare.k.bwk ‘Mayest thou go!’ (c) As subject of the Old Conjugation form of the verb (§180); e.g. pe`a.3 ‘He says’, naa.k ‘Thou art great’. (d) As the object of the verb; e.g. a.3.bol.3 ‘He loosed him’, 3.na.6otb.3 ‘He will kill him’. (e) Reflexively; e.g. a.3.kot.3  e.m.maqhths (Lk 10:2) ‘He turned himself to the disciples’, a.3.oue4 tmeio.3 ‘He wished to justify himself’ (Lk 10:29).
§38. (f) As possessives, used with a few nouns only. Most of these are parts of the body, those marked with an asterisk* being especially common in Compound Prepositions (§272):

—e.g. rw.3 ‘His mouth’, rat.k ‘Thy foot’, e`w.i ‘Upon me’ (lit. To my head), n.6ht.3 ‘In it’ (lit. In its heart).
§39. Forms of the Suffix
 1 pers sing  The normal ending i falls away when the noun or verb stem ends in t; e.g., rat ‘My foot’, 6ht ‘My belly’, nt ‘To carry me’, moout ‘To kill me’. Note: Some verbs having a pronominal form with a  as the final letter take t  as the suffix ending (originally these verbs possessed an ending in t); e.g. taa.t ‘To give me’ (taa= being the pronominal form of 5), aa.t ‘To make me’ (aa= from eire), kaa.t ‘To lay me’ (kaa= from kw). When, however, the stem ends in a consonant, the ending i  is replaced by t; e.g. 6obs.t ‘Clothe me’, tnnoou.t ‘Send me’, arh`.t ‘My end’.
§40.  2 fem sing  -e  is attached to the stem when it ends in a consonant; e.g. eiat.e ‘Thy eye’, toot.e ‘Thy hand’, nt.e ‘To bring thee’, otp.e ‘To surround thee’. -e  is omitted when the stem, being a noun or a preposition, ends in a vowel; e.g. `w ‘Thy head’, 6th ‘Thy heart’, ero ‘To thee’. If the noun or preposition ends in a, this stem vowel gives place to the e  of the suffix; e.g. 6r.e ‘Thy face’ (6ra=), n.e ‘For thee’ (na=). -e  is likewise omitted after verbal stems ending in o, w, ou; e.g. kto ‘To turn thee’. But when the verbal stem ends in a (§39n), the suffix takes the form -te; e.g. taa.te ‘To give thee’.
§41.  3 fem sing  -s  is regularly used to express the neuter object ‘it’, especially after the verb `w ‘To say’, which must take an object; e.g. a.3.`oo.s ‘He said it’.
§42.  2 com pl  -tn. When the stem ends in a or o, the vowel is lengthened; e.g. 6ra.n ‘Our face’ but 6rh.tn ‘Your face’, ero.k ‘To thee’ but erw.tn ‘To you’, ta6o.3 ‘To place him’ but ta6w.tn ‘To place you’. Note: mmw.tn ‘You’ and nou.tn ‘Yours’ (§14). When the stem ends in a consonant, the form -thutn  is used; e.g. 6ht.thutn ‘Your heart’ e`n.thutn ‘Without you’. It is to be noted that when this suffix is employed as the object after a verb, the verb is in the Construct Form, and not in the Pronominal Form; e.g. twoun.k ‘To raise thee’ but toun.thutn ‘To raise you’, bol.k ‘To loose thee’ but bel.thutn ‘To loose you’.
§43.  3 com pl  -ou  is the usual form of the suffix; e.g. rat.ou ‘Their feet’, ero.ou ‘To them’, 6w.ou ‘Themselves’, ta6o.ou ‘To place them’. When the stem ends in a, the diphthong au  is formed; e.g., taa.u (for taa-ou) ‘To give them’, 6ra.u (for 6raou) ‘Their face’.
§44. -sou  appears as the 3 com pl suffix after the verbs s6ai ‘To write’, tnnoou and `oou ‘To send’, 2wou ‘To make narrow’, and ari, the imperative of eire ‘To do, make’; e.g. tnnoou.sou ‘To send them’, ari.sou ‘Make them!’ Occasionally this suffix appears in the form -se; e.g. 3.na.tn-noou.se ‘He will send them’ (Mt 21:23).
§45. The Independent Pronouns

In contrast to the Suffix Pronoun, the Independent Pronoun can stand in its Absolute Form quite independently of any other word in the sentence, and as a result bears a more of less emphatic meaning; e.g. nto.3  de  a.3.ouw4b ‘He (and no one else) answered’ (lit. He, he answered).
§46. Uses.
(1) To emphasize the subject of a sentence when it is a pronoun; e.g. anok 5.`w  mmo.s  nh.tn ‘I, I say it to you’.
(2) In the 1^st and 2^nd persons to express the subject in non-verbal sentences (§301); e.g. anok  ou.rwme ‘I (am) a man’. The Construct Forms are more common in use than the Absolute; e.g. ang.p.4hre  m.p.noute ‘I (am) the Son of God’.
(3) To strengthen the possessive adjective (§50); e.g. anok  pa.6ht ‘My heart’, pa.eiwt  anok ‘My father’.
(4) To strengthen the suffix; e.g. a.3.2nt.3  nto.3 ‘He found him’ (Z 294).
§47. The Pronoun of Emphasis or Contrast: 6w(w)= ‘Self, also’ or ‘But on the other hand’, takes the suffixes:

It is frequently used in conjunction with the Independent Pronoun; e.g. nto  6ww.te  bhqleem ‘Thou also Bethlehem’ (Mt 2:6), ntwtn  6wt.thutn  ari.sou  na.u  n.tei.6e ‘You also do thus (lit. in this way) to them’ (Mt 7:12), ntwtn  6wt.thutn  ete.tn  `w  mmo.s  `e  ang.nim ‘But you on the other hand, who do you say I (am)?’ (Mt 16:15).
§48. The Possessive Pronoun

§49. This Absolute Form is used as a substantive; e.g. twk  te  t.2om  mn.peoou  4an.iene6 ‘Thine is the power and the glory forever’ (Mt 6:13), nou.k  de  ouwm  sesw ‘But thine (i.e. the disciples) eat, they drink’ (Lk 5:33; note the asyndeton, §338).
The Construct Form of the Possessive Pronoun
§50. The Possessive Adjective