Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all; [...] But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil, Each wish contracting, fitshim to the soil.
Withnominative effect:he, especially as a predicate afterbe, or following a preposition.[from 15th c.]
Ancient:(after preposition that governs accusative)αὐτόν(autón),ἕ(hé),τοῦτον(toûton),τόνδε(tónde),ἐκεῖνον(ekeînon),τόν(tón),ὅν(hón);(after preposition that governs dative)αὐτῷ(autôi),οἷ(hoî),τούτῳ(toútōi),τῷδε(tôide),ἐκείνῳ(ekeínōi),τῷ(tôi),ᾧ(hôi);(after preposition that governs genitive)αὐτοῦ(autoû),οὗ(hoû),τούτου(toútou),τοῦδε(toûde),ἐκείνου(ekeínou),τοῦ(toû)
Walloon:li(wa)(between 2 consonants),el(wa)(between 2 consonants),l'(wa)(before or after vowel; the 3 placed before verb),lu(wa)(imperative, after verb)
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[…] daring dizzying passages in other, fleeting and passionate dwellings within thehims and hers whom she inhabits[…]
2004,Tom Wolfe,I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel[3]:
Bothhims took a good look at him.
2004, Charles J. Sullivan,Love and Survival, page68:
By this time, she had so many questions, but she only hit him up for one answer about those “hims” and “hers.” She asked, “Do bothhims and hers reproduce hummers?”
1 Used preconsonantally or beforeh. 2 Early or dialectal. 3Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third person dual forms in Middle English. 4 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd person singular.
At this time the most noble English kings, Oswiu of Northumbria and Ecgberht of Kent, held a discussion and conference betweenthem about what was to be done about the state of the English church.
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page108