The Bruce 34Book 11 · The forms used absolutely are myn, his, ours, yhouris
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The Bruce 34
Book 11 · The forms used absolutely are myn, his, ours, yhouris
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thaires: That suld be myn (V. 223), etc.
Reflexive.--1. The personal pronouns serve as reflexives: I will me spied (XI. 638); And went hyr hame (V. 177).
2. There is also the form in self, more seldom selvyn, selvin. When the subject is a personal pronoun this may drop out: that himself suld wele Kepe the entre (XI. 445).
3. Self is both singular and plural: That thai mycht help thameself (X. 619).
Demonstrative.--1. The Northern plural of this is thir, which supplanted thas as thise did in the Midland. Its origin is obscure.
Murray, p. 185.
2. The plural of that is tha(i). Distinguish from thai (they), 3rd pers. plur.
3. Yhon(e), more often an adjective, has also a substantive use in three cases only (IV. 502, 506; XIV. 280).
Relative and Interrogative.--1. The relative pronoun is that or at, never quha. At is a purely Northern form. Quhais and quham occur occasionally as oblique cases. In quhom, as in words like so, mor, etc., there is evidence of Southern influence. Quha is used as an interrogative. The simple quhilk occurs but once (XVIII. 225, see note), where E has a different reading; otherwise it is in the form the quilk that.
