2.5 "myself, yourself" — the reflexive *gan-*
2 · Pronouns · a plain-language guide to Assyrian (Sureth) grammar
To say "myself, yourself, himself," take the base gan- (borrowed from Kurdish) and add — you guessed it — the same possessive endings:
| gani | myself | |
| ganukh / ganakh | yourself (m. / f.) | |
| ganokhun | yourselves / yourself (polite) | |
| ganu | himself | |
| gano | herself | |
| gane | themselves | |
| ganan | ourselves | (also ganeni) |
Same eight endings, third time. This is the payoff of learning those endings cold: diyy-, gan-, and the noun endings are all the same set.
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gan- is the word gana "soul" with an ending, and it keeps that meaning in some everyday idioms (Khan's dictionary, p.161):
| Assyrian | English | from |
|---|---|---|
| men-ganu kheshle | he fainted (lit. he went out of himself) | dict. p.161 |
| ganu pletle | he died (lit. his soul went out) | dict. p.161 |
| t-atya al-ganu | she will attack him | dict. p.161 |