una dueña me priso” (Feminine noun, singular)
– Can be used as a pronoun.
– The old pronouns “is,” ’he she it’ were apparently vanishing from popular speech by the rest of the century , and replaced by the demonstrative pronoun ĭllĕ ĭlla ĭllŭd ‘that (one)’, the source of nearly all third person pronouns in Romance languages.
“la dueña” (Third person singular, feminine, noun)
- In modern Spanish, most feminine nouns end in “a”. Ending in an “a” indicates that a person or animal is female or that an object, idea, etc. is feminine.
- Romance, besides having pronouns of that kind, also created a new category of articles known as “clitics”, which cannot stand alone and which behave more like verb affixes.
“Estar solo con ella una hora” (Subject pronoun)
Etymon: Illa.
– Third person, singular, feminine.
Shows the Latin first and second person pronouns and the corresponding Romance pronouns, both tonic and atonic.
“a dueñas señora”
“a” Spanish lost Latin’s case marking system, but it adopted a new form of case marking, known as the personal “a.”
– The personal “a” indicates the definite human indirect objects or direct objects that are considered to have human qualities.
– The personal “a” was grammaticalized in the 1600s.
-The difference is that the modern Spanish no longer carries the accent compared to the Old.
Fabla—> habla. (noun)
Singular, feminine. Originates from Latin etymon : “Fabula.”
The replacement of /F/ by /H/ in spelling is not frequent before the 16th century
/F/ was almost always initial in Latin words, and in Spanish most of them passed through a stage in which the consonant eventually developed to /H/ and then was lost phonologically.
/F/ represented the labiodental /F/ in Latin, which underwent a series of lenition to became, successively, bilabial /H/.
“por mí” (First person, singular pronoun)
-Spanish mí is attributed to datives “mĭhī” which became limited to stressed contexts.
In this context the “mi” is referring to masculine gender, however in general the “mi” can refer to the neuter gender or the fourth and fifth declensions, which according to the History of Romance languages by Ti Alike, begins to dissolve in Popular Latin as their nouns relocate to the more populated first and second declensions. In the process, the first declension bonds stronger with the feminine gender and the second with the masculine.
Most nouns of the predominantly masculine fourth declension are reassigned to the second declension, which they already resemble their current and frequent form. In addition, two major innovations shaped the Romance personal pronoun system. In Latin, every personal pronoun was capable of standing alone, for example as a response.