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is inflected. Gen. sing, _one's own self_: plural, _my wife and little ones are well_. _Derived pronouns._--_Any_, in Anglo-Saxon, _aenig_. In Old High German we have _ein[^i]c_ = _any_, and _einac_ = _single_. In Anglo-Saxon _[^a]nega_ means _single_. In Middle High German _einec_ is always single. In New High German _einig_ means, 1. _a certain person_ (_quidam_), 2. _agreeing_; _einzig_, meaning _single_. In Dutch _[^e]nech_ has both meanings. This indicates the word _['a]n_, _one_, as the root of the word in question. _Compound pronouns._--_Which_, as has been already stated more than once, is most incorrectly called the neuter of _who_. Instead of being a neuter, it is a compound word. The adjective _leiks_, _like_, is preserved in the Moeso-Gothic words _galeiks_ and _missaleiks_. In Old High German the form is _lih_, in Anglo-Saxon _lic_. Hence we have Moeso-Gothic _hv[^e]leiks_; Old High German, _huelih_; Anglo-Saxon, _huilic_ and _hvilc_; Old Frisian, _hwelik_; Danish, _hvilk-en_; German, _welch_; Scotch, _whilk_; English, _which_. The same is the case with-- 1. _Such_.--Moeso-Gothic, _svaleiks_; Old High German, _s[^o]l[^i]h_; Old Saxon, _sul[^i]c_; Anglo-Saxon, _svilc_; German, _solch_; English, _such_. Rask's derivation of the Anglo-Saxon _swilc_ from _swa-ylc_, is exceptionable. 2. _Thilk_.--An old English word, found in the provincial dialects, as _thick_, _thuck_, _theck_, and hastily derived by Tyrwhitt, Ritson, and Weber, from _se ylca_, is found in the following forms: Moeso-Gothic, _th['e]leiks_; Norse, _thvilikr_. 3. _Ilk_.--Found in the Scotch, and always preceded by the article; _the ilk_, or _that ilk_, meaning _the same_. In Anglo-Saxon this word is _ycla_, preceded also by the article _se ylca_, _se['o] ylce_, _thaet ylce_. In English, as seen above, the word is replaced by _same_. In no other Gothic dialect does it occur. According to Grimm, this is no simple word, but a compound one, of which some such word as _ei_ is the first, and _l[^i]c_ the second element. _Aught_.--In Moeso-Gothic is found the particle, _aiv_, _ever_, but only in negative propositions; _ni_ (_not_) preceding it. Its Old High German form is _[^e]o_, _io_; in Middle High German, _ie_; in New High German, _je_; in Old Saxon, _io_; in Anglo-Saxon, [^a]; in Norse, ae. Combined with this particle the word _whit_ (_thing_) gives the following forms: Old High German, _[^e]owiht_; Anglo-Saxon, _[^a]viht_; Old Frisian,
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