Abstract
In Middle Egyptian, the compounds ds-\suffix pronoun are generally acknowledged to indicate: (i) a person (him)self or person; (2) a person's item; (3) performing an action (by) oneself or by one's own agency.1 The ^s-compound can follow and reinforce a pronoun as well as a noun.2 An exceptional example of initial ds-k in Pap. Westcar 7,8 has been explained as Anticipating a suffix serving as subject.3 The later self -compound, Y + suffix-pronoun, which is already found in Middle Egyptian,4 is attested in Late Egyptian with the senses of also, besides, as Erman has pointed out: Zuweilen steht das hcdann auch nur zur besonderen Betonung eines Wortes, etwa wie unser 'besonders, vor allem, auch/5 Erman cites an example from Wenamun (2, 53-4) : ir H^-m-wsst, rmt n[})-hib-f ft'k n ip{w)tyw, hr rmt hc-f As for Khacemwise, those whom he sent to you as envoys were men, and he was also a man.6
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