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The substitution of ;/ for /• and I is also shown by the treatment 

 of English loan words. 



rat vats. 



blanket biya'rjgat. 



plate biyo'ti". 



broom biyu'm. 



Friday biyaita. 



breakfast biyo'djapas. 



From Mrs. Fielding's verbal forms, which are by no means com- 

 plete, a tabulation of pronominal elements is as follows: 



Mohegan-Pequot Pronominal Tables 

 Indicative mood, personal prefixes and terminations of the verb; as exhibited in llie 



extant material 



A short list of Mohegan stems and morphological elements, with 

 exam])les of their use from the texts and previously published lexical 

 material, will prove serviceable for purposes of comparison. 



-\oayg <icnotes tlie abstract noun. It is usually used with verbs 

 in the third personal form (a). In another sense it does service as 

 a verbal noun termination, "that which is so and so," or "that 

 which does so and so" (b); and then passes over into an instru- 



