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TheEmphaticPronoun

[H] The Emphatic Pronoun

This is used (a) where the pronoun may be expressed apart from any syntax, as a single word, and (b) where particular emphasis is required.

• Uffy!(T): Me! (used traditionally when claiming a right)
• Henna theth pedn za gy than doer sure a wra cruppia(915): He will surely force thy head into the ground
• traveth al beaw a eve(R): nothing that is his

The emphatic form of the three persons plural does not differ from their un-emphasised forms.

Note: 'whoever' is translated by penagell which can be used either as pronoun or in the sense of 'whatever' as an adjective, as in: