Editing Mohawk language (section)

===Nouns===
Nouns are given the following form in Mohawk:<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title = A Grammar Of Awkwesasne Mohawk|last = Bonvillain|first = Nancy|publisher = National Museum of Man, National Museums of Canada|year = 1973}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title = A Thousand Words Of Mohawk|last = Michelson|first = Günther|publisher = National Museum of Man, National Museums Of Canada|year = 1973}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title = One thousand useful Mohawk words|last = Maracle|first = David|publisher = Audio-Forum|location = Guilford, Conn}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
!Nominal Prefix
!Noun Stem
!Nominal Suffix
|}

Noun prefixes give information relating to gender, animacy, number and person, and identify the word as a noun.

For example:

1) '''oʼ'''nenste   "corn"

2) '''o'''ienʼkwa  "tobacco"

Here, the prefix  ''o-'' is generally found on nouns found in natural environments. Another prefix exists which marks objects that are made by humans.

3) '''ka'''nhoha     "door"

4) '''kaʼ'''khare  "slip, skirt"

Here, the prefix ''ka-'' is generally found on human-made things. Phonological variation amongst the Mohawk dialects also gives rise to the prefix ''ga-''.

Noun roots are similar to nouns in English in that the noun root in Mohawk and the noun in English have similar meanings.

(Caughnawaha)

5) –eri-  "heart"

6) –hi- "river"

7) –itshat- "cloud"

These noun roots are bare. There is no information other than the noun root itself. Morphemes cannot occur individually. That is, to be well-formed and grammatical, ''-eri-'' needs pronominal prefixes, or the root can be incorporated into a predicate phrase.

Nominal suffixes are not necessary for a well-formed noun phrase. The suffixes give information relating to location and attributes. For example:

Locative Suffix:

8) i. onuʼtaʼ              "hill"

ii. onutaʼ'''ke'''  "'''on''' the hill"

9) i. onekwvhsaʼ       "blood"

ii. onekwvhsaʼ'''ke'''   "'''in''' the blood"

Here the suffix < -ke > denotes location.

Attributive Suffix:

10) kvjyʼ                  "fish"

11) kvjaʼ'''koʼwa'''       "sturgeon" or "big fish"

Here, the suffix ''-koʼwa'' denotes an augmentative suffix, which increases the attribute of the noun in question.