Re: NATLANG ruki-rule in Slavic, Scandinavian languages, Danish

BP Jonsson skrev:

> You don't. The indefinite article is cognate with English > _yon/yonder_ and
> German _jener_. Icelandic and Norwegian > still have it as an independent
> pronoun _hin(n)/hitt_, meaning > "the other one".
Speaking of this, my girlfriend (who is from Piteå in northern Sweden) has three
demonstrative pronouns, which doesn't exist in standard Swedish.

hojna /hUjna/ 'she, this one/that one' hajna /hajna/ 'he, this one/that one' hejna
/hEjna/ 'it, this one/that one'

These are clearly demonstrative rather than personal. She used one of them just this
morning when pointing at a picture of a woman in the paper and referring to her
as _hujna_, i.e. 'this woman here', rather than 'she', which would be _hon_ in
Swedish.

The usage may vary. Sometimes it's only used if _hojna_ is walking towards you but
not away from you, etc.

I wonder where these pronouns come from and if they have any cognates.

Daniel Andreasson