List of marginal words in ... usefulquotes
This is a list of marginal words in the ... usefulquotes
document[1] that are not discussed elsewhere on this wiki.
asu
Pronunciation | /ˈa |
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Usage | 2023: N/A This word has not been surveyed for. Most speakers likely don't understand it. |
Book and era | No book |
Part of speech | Content word |
asu is a post-pu animal word for moths. It is derived from Hausa asu.
jete
Pronunciation | /ˈje |
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Usage | 2023: N/A This word has not been surveyed for. Most speakers likely don't understand it. |
Book and era | No book |
Part of speech | Content word |
jete is a post-pu content word relating to projectiles and yeeting (throwing). It is derived from French jeter.
kani
Pronunciation | /ˈka |
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Usage | 2023: N/A This word has not been surveyed for. Most speakers likely don't understand it. |
Book and era | No book |
Part of speech | Content word |
kani is a post-ku content word relating to types, kinds, categories, and sorting. It is derived from Tok Pisin kain, from English kind.
kitu
Pronunciation | /ˈki |
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Usage | 2023: N/A This word has not been surveyed for. Most speakers likely don't understand it. |
Book and era | No book |
Part of speech | Content word |
kitu is a word that "means whatever you want it to mean," and is "basically a wild card in word form".
kolo
Pronunciation | /ˈko |
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Usage | 2023: N/A This word has not been surveyed for. Most speakers likely don't understand it. |
Book and era | No book |
Part of speech | Content word |
kolo is an animal word for pigs. It is derived from Swahili guruwe, Zulu ingulube, Kongo ngulu, Spanish guarro and gorrino, Japanese ごろごろ/ゴロゴロ gorogoro, and English grunt. The sitelen pona glyph for kolo depicts a pig, viewed in profile.
me
Pronunciation | /me/ |
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Usage | 2023: N/A This word has not been surveyed for. Most speakers likely don't understand it.2022: Obscure (0%) |
Book and era | No book |
Part of speech | Particle |
me is a post-ku joke interjection of bewilderment, confusion, and "other things". It is derived from a sound [mɾeəʔ] spontaneously made by ijo Kakuko pi pilin sona. It also has a non-humorous definition where it is reanalyzed as an abbreviation of anu seme.
sina pali e ni mesina pali e ni me?
Are you making this?
sina me li pali e nisina me li pali e ni?
Are you the one making this?
sina pali me e nisina pali me e ni?
Are you really making this (as opposed to some other action)?
me appears to have a sitelen pona glyph in the sitelen seli kiwen font family, derived from the glyph for seme (seme).
minsu
Pronunciation | /ˈmin |
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Usage | 2023: N/A This word has not been surveyed for. Most speakers likely don't understand it. |
Book and era | No book |
Part of speech | Content word |
minsu is a post-pu content word relating to electricity and lightning, much like pika, an obscure word. minsu is derived from Kannada ಮಿಂಚು miñcu, meaning "lightning".
nan
Pronunciation | /nan/ |
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Usage | 2023: N/A This word has not been surveyed for. Most speakers likely don't understand it. |
Book and era | No book |
Part of speech | Particle |
nan is a post-pu particle based on nanpa, "but only ever used as a dereferencing particle and never a content word." It is derived from Toki Pona nanpa and IEEE 754 NaN .
paka
Pronunciation | /ˈpa |
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Usage | 2023: N/A This word has not been surveyed for. Most speakers likely don't understand it. |
Book and era | No book |
Part of speech | Particle |
paka is a profane post-pu interjection of exasperation and willful recklessness, roughly translatable as "ah, screw it". It is derived from Toki Pona pakala with the removal of la.
panpan
Pronunciation | /ˈpan |
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Usage | 2023: N/A This word has not been surveyed for. Most speakers likely don't understand it. |
Book and era | No book |
Part of speech | Content word |
panpan is a content word relating to sandwiches. It is derived from reduplicating Toki Pona pan, and was coined by soweli pi loje walo.
pe
Pronunciation | /pe/ |
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Usage | 2023: N/A This word has not been surveyed for. Most speakers likely don't understand it.2022: Obscure (0%) |
Book and era | No book |
Part of speech | Content word |
pe is a word relating to the variable b in mathematics.
santa
Pronunciation | /ˈsan |
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Usage | 2023: N/A This word has not been surveyed for. Most speakers likely don't understand it. |
Book and era | No book |
Part of speech | Content word |
santa is a post-pu joke word relating to spreading joy, being generous, and deceiving children. It is derived from English Santa, and was coined by nasin laso Sasalin.
sokeli
Pronunciation | /ˈso |
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Usage | 2023: N/A This word has not been surveyed for. Most speakers likely don't understand it. |
Book and era | No book |
Part of speech | Content word |
sokeli is a post-pu content word relating to soweli–soko hybrids, such as the Mooshroom in Minecraft.
References
- ↑ ma pona pi toki pona community, jan Pensa (compiler). (22 September 2021). "... usefulquotes". Google Docs. Retrieved 8 November 2023.