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minus-squaresocsa@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·3 days agoWomen implies the existence of nimen and tamen
minus-squareboydster@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-23 days 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-up5·3 days 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’.
minus-squareOmegaLemmy@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoHmm. Wōmen… Men of Wō… I don’t mean to be racist but their triads freak me out.
Women implies the existence of nimen and tamen
Mmmmm… ramen
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’.
Hmm. Wōmen… Men of Wō… I don’t mean to be racist but their triads freak me out.