Biblical Hebrew Forum

["stoneyb" <stoneyb AT touchwood.net>]

The English 'er' in prisoner=prison+er=prison+are is likewise a personal
pronoun. 

A) 'prisoner' brought its suffix over from French
B) '-er' has never had anything to do with 'are'. Different stem
altogether
C) characterizing an agentive affix as a 'pronoun' does makes a kind of
metaphoric sense, but at the price of making the term 'pronoun'
virtually meaningless.

Stoney Breyer
Writer/Touchwood, Inc.