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difficult to decide whether this condition is genuine or whether it is 

 due to the broken condition of Mrs. Fielding's idiom. Her verbal 

 auxiliaries (potential, negative, temporal) have more the nature of 

 separate words than they do in the related eastern tongues. Her 

 verbs are extremely noncomplicated. 



In the following illustrations cognates with Massachusetts, Nar- 

 ragansett, and in some instances with other adjacent dialects, are 

 added in parentheses when such are considered enlightening. The 

 original spelling given in the sources is retained in the forms quoted. 

 Most important would be a comparison with Mahican, which will be 

 possible later when Doctor Michelson has published his texts and 

 vocabularies. Some Mahican vocabularies of the eighteenth cen- 

 tury are also available among the collections of manuscripts in the 

 library of the American Philosophical Society. 



Reverting to the mention of some of the morphological peculiarities 

 which characterize the dialect, one of the interesting phonetic prop- 

 erties, and perhaps the most distinctive, is the y substitution, in 

 Mohegan-Pequot, for I, n, and sometimes r in neighboring dialects. 

 A few illustrations may be offered: 



English 



We (inclusive) 



Good 



Spoon 



Breath 



Parched corn flour 



He is strong 



Yesterday 



He gives 



Fire 



It looks clear, nice 



Rain 



Tongue 



He thinks 



I think 



He works 



He gives 



Hen 



Sorry 



Five 



Here, there 



He wishes it 



Mohegan-Pequot 



Massachusetts (Natick)- 

 Narragansett 



gi ya'u 



wi'gan 



gi'ya'm'an. 



ya'cawarig 



yo'ki'g 



mi''ki'gu 



wi"yai]gu 



mi''yO' 



wi'yu't 



wi'y«qgwad 



zu'gayan 



wi''yan 



(a) ya"'tam 



nataiya'tam 



aiki''kuzu 



mi''zo ( = mi''zi— )- 



moic 



si'wa'tam 



kenawun 



wunnegen 



kena'm, kuna'm, 

 kunna'm. 



nashauonk 



nokik 



menuki 



wunnunkwi 



ni pa u , 



yudai', ni' dai' 

 tca'ntom 



nut- 



sokanon 



wenan 



anantam 



nuttenantam un . _ 

 anakausu 



Wabanaki 

 (St. Francis) 



monish. 



f nepanna (Narr.). 

 \napanna (Nat.).. 



ahchewontam. 



ki'lu'na (Pen.), 

 uli'gon. 



nasawoga n. 



m3li''kigu. 

 w'la'ijgwe. 

 mi'lau. 



uK'naqgwat. 



zp'glan. 



wi'la'lo. 



— la'ldamen. 



ndela'ldaman. 



alo''kazu. 



mil—. 



siwaldamen, re- 

 pent. 



yuda'li, ni'da'li. 

 (Pen.) etcwe'ld- 

 aman. 



