jume
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| Pronunciation | /ˈju |
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| Usage | 2023: Obscure (3% ↗︎ ) Most speakers don't understand this word.2022: Obscure (1%)
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| Book and era | No book (post-pu) |
| Part of speech | Content word |
jume is an obscure experimental content word and nimi sin relating to dreams.
Etymology[edit | edit source]
The word jume is derived from Japanese 夢 (Hepburn: yume), meaning "dream". It was coined in 2021 by jan Seli in the ma pona pi toki pona community, as a criticism to the word isipin, which she deemed "poorly thought out and not useful".[1][2]
Semantic space[edit | edit source]
The semantic space of jume includes dreams, imagination, and hope. By extension, it may refer to fantasy and falsehood without a negative connotation, unlike the word powe.[3]
The words pilin ("to feel"), powe ("false"), and wile ("to want") have similar but, according to jan Seli, not identical semantic spaces to jume.
sitelen pona[edit | edit source]
A proposed sitelen pona glyph for jume (jume) is composed of the lape glyph (lape) with emitters above.
Related words[edit | edit source]
kana[edit | edit source]
oni[edit | edit source]
| Pronunciation | /ˈo |
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| Usage | 2023: Obscure (2% ↗︎ ) Most speakers don't understand this word.2022: Obscure (1%)This word is deprecated.
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| Book and era | No book (post-pu) |
| Part of speech | Content word |
oni is an obscure deprecated word related to dreams. It is derived from Ancient Greek ὄνειρος (óneiros), meaning "dream", and coined in 2021 by kulupu Eki.[citation needed]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ jan Seli [@th3scribble]. (26 January 2021). [Message posted in the
#toki-ponachannel in the ma pona pi toki pona Discord server]. Discord. Retrieved 28 December 2023. "isipin is kinda dumb so here's a better nimisin: jume, dream". - ↑ jan Seli [@th3scribble]. (26 January 2021). [Message posted in the
#toki-ponachannel in the ma pona pi toki pona Discord server]. Discord. Retrieved 28 December 2023. "anyway isipin is poorly thought out and not useful because of words like pilin, toki, and sona[.] jume is a similar idea but it's something that none of the other three expess". - ↑ jan Seli [@th3scribble]. (26 January 2021). [Message posted in the
#sona-musichannel in the ma pona pi toki pona Discord server]. Discord. Retrieved 28 December 2023. "and what i really love about jume is that it can be a way of saying "false" but with a good connotation".
Further reading[edit | edit source]
- "jume" on lipu Linku