_Agan Tâs ny neb es en Nêv_, Our Father who art in heaven, in one of the many extant versions of the Lord’s Prayer.
Another version is _Agan Tâs ny leb es en Nêv_.
_Dhe_ [_tî_] _nep yu ioy ow holon_, thou who art the joy of my heart (_Res. Dom._, 456).
_An dên neb na’n gwrîg_, the man who did not do it.
_An dên neb Dew a wrîg e dhanvon_, the man whom God did send.
_An dên neb an gêr a rê cowses ganso_, the man by whom the word was spoken.
_Neb mî e wrîg ragdho_, for whom I did it (lit. whom I did it for him).
But, unlike _a_, _neb_ can have a preposition before it on occasions, with or without the redundant pronoun. Thus:—
_Chŷ en neb na vê dên vîth_ (_enno_), a house in which no man was.
1. Absolute. _Hem_, _hebma_ (orig. _hemma_), this, masculine; _hom_, _hobma_ (_homma_), feminine.
_Hen_, _hedna_ (ong. _henna_), that, masculine; _hon_, _hodna_ (_honna_), feminine.
_An remma_ (=_an re-ma_) is used also for the plural _these_, _an renna_ for _those_.
2. In agreement. _An_—_ma_, this, these, e.g. _an bês-ma_, this world.
_An_—_na_, that, those, e.g. _an dên-na_, that man.
The noun is placed between _an_ and _ma_ or _na_, the latter being joined to it by a hyphen. In some cases when the noun ends in a vowel the _m_ of _ma_ is doubled, and the noun and demonstrative are written as one word:—
_an dremma_, this town (for _an dre-ma_); _an chymma_, this house (for _an chŷ-ma_); _alemma_, hence (for _a le-ma_), from this place.
When the noun is preceded by a preposition, _an_ is omitted: _war venedh-ma_, on this mountain, not _war an menedh-ma_.
For emphasis, _keth_ (same) is added after _an_: _an keth dên-ma_, this very man, this same man.
In very late Cornish, _hebma_, _hobma_, _hedna_, _hodna_ were often corrupted into _hebba_, _hobba_, _hedda_, _hodda_.
In the _Life of St_._ Meriasek_, _helma_ and _holma_ are used for _this_, and it is easy to imagine _helna_ and _holna_ for _that_. The explanation suggested in Dr. Whitley Stokes’s note is “_helma_=_hen lemma_, this in this place.” Cf. “this here” and “that there” of vulgar English.
_Pyu_ or _pyua_ (written also _pu_, _piwa_, _pew_), who? A contraction of _pe yu_, who is? or, _pe yu a_, who is it who?
_Pandra_ (i.e. _pa an dra_, what the thing), what? e g. _pandra vednough why gwîl_, what will you do?