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[edit | edit source]
The word akesi is derived from Dutch hagedis, meaning "lizard".[1]
Semantic space[edit | edit source]
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.
akesi li moku e pipiakesi li moku e pipi.
The frog eats bugs.
akesi linjaakesi linja
snake (lit. 'line-shaped reptile')
pu[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
For Toki Pona Dictionary, respondents in ma pona pi toki pona translated these English words as akesi:[3]
reptile5, frog3
sitelen pona[edit | edit source]
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),[4] but only the four-legged style is used in su (2024 onwards).[5]
sitelen sitelen[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
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- ↑ Word Origins. Archived from the original on 2 November 2019. Toki Pona.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.)
Further reading[edit | edit source]
- "akesi" on lipu Linku
- "akesi" on lipu Wikipesija
- "akesi" on English Wiktionary