Babylonian.
This word is usually compared to the
WS words with the meaning “these”, but it is hard to explain the functional difference (plural of the proximal deixis vs. form of the distal deixis common for all genders and numbers). In this respect the evidence of Tigre, where pronouns of both proximal and distal deixis are formed with the help of the element -l-, is of special interest: proximal deixis
ˀәlli,
ˀәllā,
ˀәllom,
ˀәllan, distant deixis
lohay,
lohā,
lohom,
lohan. See Kogan 2009:71.