rnams

Updated: May 19, 2025

If the fact is worth expressing, however, I can say nga-s mi rnams mthong "by me man plural see," where rnams is the perfect conceptual analogue of -s in books, divested of all relational strings. No need to bother about his plurality any more than about his whiteness unless we insist on the point. What is true of the idea of plurality is naturally just as true of a great many other concepts.

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