But whenever one needed a pronoun to talk about more than one person (i.e., today’s “they”), all three were merged into a single form, “hie.” As you might imagine, in fast speech ...

A pronoun takes the place of a noun close nounA noun is the name of a thing, such as an object, a place, or a person. in a sentence. Pronouns are short words like 'it', 'she', 'he', 'you ...

Y can also mean ‘it’ or ‘them’ and is used to replace a thing (not a person) that is normally introduced by the preposition à. For example: ...