house-fires-let

Updated: May 7, 2025

First of all, the plural element precedes the diminutive in Nootka: "fire-in-the-house-plural-small-the," in other words "the house-fires-let," which at once reveals the important fact that the plural concept is not as abstractly, as relationally, felt as in English.

Edward Sapir - Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech