Consider a fishmonger asking a customer which fish the customer wants:
"this one? or this one? how about this one?"
There could easily develop a slightly productive way of marking listed pronouns:
this, or this, this then, even this, ... → this, oris, thsen, evnis
The same morphemes could affect personal pronouns when ordering several different people, for instance:
you do this, oryou do this, youn do this, evnyou do this
Same goes with third persons. With first person pronouns, however, it can be used to mark sequences of events:
I went to town, ori found a sweet girl, Ithn bought her a drink, evni never heard of her again
After 'evn-', that form is repeated (or maybe the sequence restarts at or-). Derive the pronouns from adverbs, conjunctions and pronouns in your own language, of course. One possible source could also be intensifiers and comparatives, even superlatives.
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