nasha

Updated: May 18, 2025

The peasants could not, of course, put these conceptions into a strict legal form, but they often expressed them in their own homely laconic way by saying to their master, "Mui vashi no zemlya nasha" that is to say. "We are yours, but the land is ours." And it must be admitted that this view, though legally untenable, had a certain historical justification.* * See preceding chapter.

Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace - Russia

Let none of you say at home, 'I know of something evil, or to a friend, 'bad things are going on in the tribe. Be silent, so that no one suspect the least thing, and that the sentence of the Shiuana be not interfered with. Nasha!" he concluded, and went toward the exit. Ere leaving the room, however, he turned once more, adding, "And you go also. Each one for himself and alone.

Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier - The Delight Makers