Homographs
These widespread Toki Pona words are homographs with English words. Some are cognates; most have unrelated meanings.
Common words
- a (article)
- ala (à la)
- ale (beer)
- ante (stake)
- e (pronoun)
- en (unit)
- jan (jinn)
- kin (family)
- la (music note)
- li (unit)
- ma (mother)
- mama (mother)
- mi (unit)
- mu (Greek letter)
- mute (silent)
- o (oh)
- open (ajar)
- pan (container)
- pi (Greek letter)
- sike (psych!)
- sin (wrongdoing)
- soko (ape)
- sona (self-insert)
- tan (brown)
- tu (to)
- wan (pale)
- wile (trick)
Names
In other languages
Polish
- a (and, while)
- Ala (feminine name)
- ale (but)
- jaki (what, which)
- Jan (masculine name)
- lawa (lava)
- len (flax)
- luka (gap)
- lupa (magnifying glass)
- kin (cinemas, genitive)
- ku (toward)
- ma (has, mine)
- mama (mother)
- mi (to me)
- mu (to him)
- ni (neither)
- nimi (using them)
- o (about)
- oko (eye)
- ona (she)
- pali (is smoking/burning)
- pan (sir)
- pana (sir's)
- sama (alone, feminine)
- tan (dance, archaic)
- toki (goings-on)
- tu (here)
- wan (van)
Portuguese
- a (to)
- ala (flank)
- ale (give wings!)
- ante (in front of)
- e (and)
- li (I read)
- loje (store)
- lupa (magnifying glass)
- mama (breast)
- mi (music note)
- mije (piss!)
- mu (Greek letter)
- mute (mutate!)
- nena (rag doll)
- o (the)
- pana (to bread)
- pi (Greek letter)
- pipi (pee-pee)
- pu (interjection)
- selo (postage stamp)
- sina (destiny)
- tomo (I take)
- uta (they winnow)
Spanish
- a (to)
- ala (wing)
- ante (before)
- e (and)
- en (in)
- la (the)
- laso (weary)
- lupa (magnifying glass)
- meso (I tear out)
- mi (my)
- mute (mutate!)
- nasa (weir)
- nena (girl)
- ni (nor)
- o (or)
- pan (bread)
- pana (velour)
- pi (Greek letter)
- sama (sea bream)
- sin (without)
- tan (so)
- taso (I valuate)
- tomo (tome)
- tu (your)
- uta (leishmaniasis)