.

_thaet_ ( = that, the), and _this_ ( = this).

_Neut._ _Masc._ _Fem._ _Neut._ _Masc._ _Fem._

_Sing. Nom._ _thaet_ -- -- _this_ thes the['o]s.
_Acc._ _thaet_ _thone_ th[^a] this thisne th['a]s.
_Abl._ _thy_ _thy_ _thaere._ _thise_ thise thisse.
_Dat._ th['a]m th['a]m _thaere._ thisum thisum thisse.
_Gen._ thaes thaes _thaere._ thises thises thisse.
\__________ _________/ \_________ _________/
\/ \/
_Plur. Nom. Acc._ _th['a]._ _th['a]s._
_Abl. Dat._ _th['a]m._ thisum.
_Gen._ _th['a]ra._ thissa.

III.

_Hit_ ( = it), (_he_ = he), _he['o]_ ( = she).

_Sing. Nom._ _hit_ _he_ he['o].
_Acc._ _hit_ hine h['i].
_Dat._ _him_ _him_ _hire._
_Gen._ _his_ _his_ _hire._
\_________ __________/
\/
_Plur. Nom. Acc._ hi
_Dat._ him (heom).
_Gen._ hira (heora).

IV.

_the_ (the)--Undeclined, and used for all cases and genders.

s. 232. _These_.--Here observe--

1st. That the s is no inflection, but a radical part of the word, like the
s in _geese_.

2nd. That the Anglo-Saxon form is _th['a]s_.

These facts create difficulties in respect to the word _these_. Mr. Guest's
view is, perhaps, the best; viz., that the plural element of the word is
the final -e, and that this -e is the old English and Anglo-Saxon adjective
plural; so that _thes-e_ is formed from _this_, as _gode_ ( = _boni_) is
from _god_ ( = _bonus_).

The nominative plural in the Old English adjective ended in -e; as,

_Singular._ _Plural._
_M._ _F._ _N._ _M._ _F._ _N._
_God_, _god_, _god_, _gode_.

In Old English MSS. this plural in -e is general. It occurs not only in
adjectives and pronouns as a regular inflection, but even as a plural of
the genitive _his_, that word being treated as a nominative singular; so
that _hise_ is formed from _his_, as _sui_ from _suus_, or as _eji_ might
have been formed from _ejus_; provided that in the Latin language this last
word had been mistaken for a nominative s