By surface analysis, iad + -san.
iadsan
| Number | Person (and gender) | Conjunctive (emphatic) |
Disjunctive (emphatic) |
Possessive determiner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | First | mé (mise) |
mo L m' before vowel sounds | |
| Second | tú (tusa)1 |
thú (thusa) |
do L d' before vowel sounds | |
| Third masculine | sé (seisean) |
é (eisean) |
a L | |
| Third feminine | sí (sise) |
í (ise) |
a H | |
| Third neuter | — | ea | — | |
| Plural | First | muid, sinn (muidne, muide), (sinne) |
ár E | |
| Second | sibh (sibhse)1 |
bhur E | ||
| Third | siad (siadsan) |
iad (iadsan) |
a E | |
From Old Irish . Cognates include Irish iadsan and Manx adsyn.
iadsan
| simple | emphatic | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
| first person | mi | sinn | mise | sinne | |
| second person | thu, tu1 | sibh2 | thusa, tusa1 | sibhse2 | |
| third person |
m | e | iad | esan | iadsan |
| f | i | ise | |||
1 Used when following a verb ending in -n, -s or -dh.
2 sibh and sibhse also act as the polite singular pronouns.
To mark a direct object of a verbal noun, the derivatives of gam are used.