By surface analysis, sibh + -se.
sibhse (conjunctive and disjunctive)
| 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 sibsi. Cognates include Irish sibhse and Manx shiuish.
sibhse
| simple | emphatic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | singular | plural | |
| First person | mi | sinn | mise | sinne |
| Second person | thu, tu1) | sibh | thusa, tusa1) | sibhse |
| Third person m | e | iad | esan | iadsan |
| Third person f | i | ise | ||
| *) 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. 1) used when following a verb ending in -n, -s or -dh. | ||||