akesi
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| Pronunciation | /ˈa |
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| Usage | 2023: Core (99% ↗︎ )2022: Core (98%) |
| Book and era | nimi pu |
| Part of speech | Content word |
| Codepoint | U+F1901 |
akesi is a core content word relating to reptiles and amphibians.
Etymology[o ante | o ante e toki ilo]
The word akesi is derived from Dutch hagedis (/ˌɦaːɣəˈdɪs/, "lizard").[1]
Semantic space[o ante | o ante e toki ilo]
The semantic space of akesi includes herptiles, that is, reptiles and amphibians. As a modifier, it refers to something related to herptiles and sometimes to scaly or slimy skin.[citation needed]
akesi li moku e pipiakesi li moku e pipi.
The frog eats bugs.
There are no fixed words or phrases for specific herptiles, but some are easy to describe. For example:
sijelo akesi li sama linja noka li lon ala onasijelo akesi li sama linja. noka li lon ala ona.
The body of the reptile is like a line. There are no legs on it.
akesi2 ni li jo e selo kiwenakesi ni li jo e selo kiwen.
This reptile carries a hard shell.
pu[o ante | o ante e toki ilo]
In the "Official Toki Pona Dictionary" section, the book Toki Pona: The Language of Good defines akesi as:
NOUN non-cute animal; reptile, amphibian
After the publication of the Toki Pona Dictionary, the definition was corrected and this sense removed.[2]
NOUN reptile, amphibian
ku[o ante | o ante e toki ilo]
For Toki Pona Dictionary, respondents in ma pona pi toki pona translated these English words as akesi:[3]
reptile5, frog3
lipamanka's semantic spaces dictionary[o ante | o ante e toki ilo]
In lipamanka's semantic spaces dictionary, the entry for akesi reads:[4]
akesi are creatures. they tend to be cold to the touch. When they move quickly, they go back and forth on sprawling legs or slither or squirm back and forth across the ground if they lack legs. They're close to the ground. They usually lay eggs. The contents of this semantic space is based off of a pilot study I conducted with sample size 98 about the lexical semantics of akesi. I might publish the paper I wrote about it if enough people bother me.
sitelen pona[o ante | o ante e toki ilo]
The sitelen pona glyph for akesi () represents a reptile with two beady eyes as viewed from above, drawn with a wider, oval-shaped body to distinguish it from pipi.
It is commonly drawn either with three or, alternatively, two strokes (akesi2) through the oval, representing six or four legs, respectively. The six-legged style is the original design from pu (2014),[5] but only the four-legged style is used in su (2024 onwards).[6] The four-legged variant is thought to be a multiple invention from the basic observation that amphibians and reptiles are not hexapodal.[7]
sitelen sitelen[o ante | o ante e toki ilo]
The sitelen sitelen word glyph for akesi (akesi) seems to represent a stylized head of a reptilian or non-cute animal, with a slitted eye, a weirdly shaped nose, and an uta radical (uta) for a mouth (also found in the word glyphs for a: a and toki: toki).
The influences for the design of the glyph are unknown. It was made at a time when the now obsolete "non-cute animal" sense of akesi was still very common, which may have influenced its design.
References[o ante | o ante e toki ilo]
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- ↑ "Word Origins". tokipona.org. Archived from the original on 8 August 2002.
- ↑ Lang, Sonja. (18 July 2021). Toki Pona Dictionary. Illustrated by Vacon Sartirani. Tawhid. ISBN 978-0978292362. p. 13.
- ↑ Lang, Sonja. (18 July 2021). Toki Pona Dictionary. Illustrated by Vacon Sartirani. Tawhid. ISBN 978-0978292362. p. 199.
- ↑ lipamanka. "toki pona dictionary". lipamanka.gay.
- ↑ Lang, Sonja. (25 May 2014). Toki Pona: The Language of Good. Tawhid. ISBN 978-0978292300. OCLC 921253340. p. 104.
- ↑ Sonja Lang. (6 January 2024). "Pre-Release Notes on the su Style of sitelen pona". tokipona.org. Archived from the original on 17 January 2024. (Mirrored on 10 February 2024.)
- ↑ lipamanka [@lipamanka]. (21 June 2024). Message in
#unicode. ma pi nasin sitelen. Discord. Retrieved 25 June 2024. "akesi (4 legs) - this one didn't have a specific coiner because a bunch of people were like "wait reptiles don't have six legs"".
Further reading[o ante | o ante e toki ilo]
- "akesi" on lipu Linku
- "akesi" on lipu Wikipesija
- "akesi" on English Wiktionary