When we talk about the parts of the body in the Abenaki language, we see that most of the words begin with the letter (m). Some speakers have taken it upon themselves to drop the (m) from our words and just use the root word. Many speakers will use the third person singular to express a body part. However, when doing so they are actually saying his/her head, arm, leg, etc.

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