Opaque Fusional Forms and Historical Change
Historical processes may mean that a conjugated preposition is difficult to relate to the associated preposition or pronoun in the later language. Another Scottish Gaelic example: "before you" is romhat (/roət/) with the associated preposition and pronoun being ro (/rɔ/) and thu (/u/) respectively, a relationship which is not too obscure. However, "with him" and "with her" are leis /leʃ/ and leatha /le-ə/ with le /lɛ/ being the standalone preposition "with" and e /ɛ/ and i /i/ being the relevant pronouns in their standalone forms.
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