The Tibetan noun final -s

• Main Author: Denwood, Philip
• Other Authors: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178885
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The hypothesis to be discussed in this paper is that final -s of some written Tibetan nouns is the relic of a "collective" ending, no longer productive at the time of the earliest known Tibetan texts. The main evidence for the original meaning of the ending is the existence of a series of...