kule
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| Pronunciation | /ˈku |
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| Usage | 2024: Core (99% → )2023: Core (99% → )2022: Core (99%) |
| Book and era | nimi pu |
| Part of speech | Content word |
| Codepoint | U+F191E |
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| kule |
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kule is a core content word relating to color and hues.
Etymology[edit | edit source]
The word kule is derived from Acadian French couleur ("colour"),[1] pronounced /kulɶʁ/ in jan Sonja's idiolect.[2]
Semantic space[edit | edit source]
The semantic space of kule includes colors and hues, as well as, more concretely, pigments and paint. As a modifier, it refers to colorful things.
kasi ni likulesemekasi ni li kule seme?
What color is this plant?
Extensions[edit | edit source]
By analogy, kule is extended to refer to any intrinsic or sensory attribute, such as composition, sensory information (hue, smell, flavor, timbre, texture), or gender identity. The word poki ("container") is used as an antonym for this sense, meaning any extrinsic attribute.
In analogy with the color spectrum, kule may also refer to any diverse spectrum. It sometimes refers to the space of the English word queer, particularly to distinguish sexualities from gender identities. Compare tonsi.
toki-pona li pona tawa kulupu kuletoki pona li pona tawa kulupu kule.[3]
Toki Pona is good to the queer community.
pu[edit | edit source]
In the "Official Toki Pona Dictionary" section, the book Toki Pona: The Language of Good defines kule as:
ADJECTIVE colourful, pigmented, painted
ku[edit | edit source]
For Toki Pona Dictionary, respondents in ma pona pi toki pona translated these English words as kule:[4]
colour5, diverse2, LGBTQ+2, paint2, lesbian2, gay2, spectrum2
sitelen pona[edit | edit source]
The sitelen pona glyph for kule () is composed of a triangle with a line through the middle. This possibly represents dispersion of light through a prism.
sitelen sitelen[edit | edit source]
The sitelen sitelen glyph for kule (kule) is likely some part of a Maya glyph placed over sitelen sitelen's color radical, which is taken from the lower half of the pimeja glyph.
The origin of the top portion of kule is unknown.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ "Word Origins". tokipona.org. Archived from the original on 8 August 2002.
- ↑ jan Sonja [@sonjalang]. (5 August 2024). Message in
#toki. sona.pona.la. Discord. Retrieved 5 August 2024. "acadian french is not standardized, but in my own transcription of my own idiolect:". - ↑ jan Salin, jan Olipija. (8 March 2021). "nimi 'tonsi' li pona a!" (in Toki Pona). lipu kule. Retrieved 1 February 2024. "mi mije ala li meli ala, mi toki ala e nimi ‘tonsi’. [taso] nasin mute li pona tawa mi. mi wile e ni: toki pona li pona tawa kulupu kule. mi wile pana e pilin pona tawa jan ante.".
- ↑ Lang, Sonja. (18 July 2021). Toki Pona Dictionary. Illustrated by Vacon Sartirani. Tawhid. ISBN 978-0978292362. p. 256.
Further reading[edit | edit source]
- "kule" on lipu Linku
- "kule" on lipu Wikipesija
- "kule" on English Wiktionary