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5. In Mojo the regular prefixes are : lst pers., NU ( ne , ni) ; 2nd 
pers., PI (pe) ; 3rd pers., TA, being alike for nouns and verbs, e.g. 
NI, to eat ; nu-NI-ru, my food ; nu-NI-ko , I eat. The imperative 
(as in Lengua-Mascoy) is the basis of the future form : Pi-ni-kia, eat 
thou or thou wilt eat. These prefixes NU, PI aro contractions of the 
personal pronouns Nu-ti (I), pi-li (thou). Note, Quechua sullixcs NI 
wliile Mojo prefixes NU (ne, ni) in the first person of verbs : 
Q. muna-Ni M. Ne-mwia-ko I love 
and in the second person of nouns and verbs Quechua uses k while 
Mojo uses p: 
Q. muna-nKi M. Pe-muna-ko thou lovest 
Q. yaya-iKi M. Pi-iya thy father 
and further note that in the third person Quechua uses n while Mojo 
uses t : 
Q. muna-N M. Te-muna-ko he loves 
Q. cha-ki-N M. Tai-bo-pe its foot 
6. Broadly speaking, in Choroti the verbal inflections follow the 
order of the nouns, that is, the order of the personal pronouns in the 
singular ; the plural being formed with partióles, but tliere are many 
anomalies. 
7. For the verbs, as with the nouns, we must start with the volvéis 
and have a as the great root verb of movement : 
a, ah, ak, go, go away a-pe, return a-me, reach, go to 
ma, advance, go on na, move nah, nam, arrive 
The number of words that have been derived from this simple root 
are so many and so confusing, that we can only illustrate the various 
adverbial partióles from one form of it, viz. yam : 
ya, yam , pl. yamne , to go 
ya-me, carry olí, ílow 
ya-7ni-kyo-yi, sink, drown 
ya-mi-she, knock down (chair) 
yam-ki-sii, go outside 
ya-ka-wo, to go under 
ya-me-si, to set as sun 
ya-mi-sha, swallow 
yam-ke-he, go astray 
yam-pa, disappear 
8. In Yejoz, which corresponds vcry closely from a lexical point of 
viow to tho Choroti, there are four simple methods of pronominal in- 
ílection : 
(a) Before the initial consonants ch, ts ; fu, w ; h ; k ; l, thl ; m ; 
n ; p ; s, and t, the regular prefixes are : 1, o or lio ; 2, a ; 3, i ; 
1 pl., na or ya ; 2 pl., a ; 3 pl., i, e.g. : 
1, O-fiout ; 2, A-fwut ; 3, 1-fwut ; 1 pl. N A- fwut or YA-fwut, to sharpen. 
