Editorial note — Front matter (continued 4)

Cf. in other languages, as in German ich möchte ihn sehen, French je veux le voir, Latin se alunt, me defendi, etc. That such pronouns are unemphatic can be seen from English let her come (= let'er come), make him stop (= make'im stop), etc., in which the unemphatic forms er, im, replace him, her, in pronunciation (cf. the Greek enclitic pronouns μοϋ, μοί, μέ, σον, σοι, σέ, οϋ, οι, έ, the Sanskrit enclitic forms mā, me, tvā, te, nas, vas, enam, enat, enām, also sīm, and the Avestan ī, īm). The same phenomenon is indicated in prithee (= pray thee), and in the spellings gimme (= give me), lemme (= let me), in dialect stories.