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minus-squaresocsa@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·1 day agoWomen implies the existence of nimen and tamen
minus-squareOmegaLemmy@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·18 hours agoHmm. Wōmen… Men of Wō… I don’t mean to be racist but their triads freak me out.
minus-squareboydster@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-21 day agoOoo help me learn today if you don’t mind… Where does this prefix grouping come from? Edit: found it, I think: Chinese?
minus-squarethatKamGuy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·19 hours agoCorrect; wo, ni, ta are the singular forms I, you, he/she/it. Adding the -men suffix turns it into the plural we/you/they. So literally, ‘we’ are ‘women’.
Women implies the existence of nimen and tamen
Mmmmm… ramen
Hmm. Wōmen… Men of Wō… I don’t mean to be racist but their triads freak me out.
Ooo help me learn today if you don’t mind… Where does this prefix grouping come from?
Edit: found it, I think: Chinese?
Correct; wo, ni, ta are the singular forms I, you, he/she/it. Adding the -men suffix turns it into the plural we/you/they.
So literally, ‘we’ are ‘women’.