slape
Pronunciation | /ˈsla.pe/ |
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Usage | 2023: Obscure (2% ↗︎ ) Most speakers don't understand this word.2022: Obscure (1%) |
Book and era | No book (post-pu) |
Part of speech | Content word |
slape is a humorous synonym of lape. It breaks Toki Pona's phonotactics with the consonant cluster sl-.
Etymology
The word was coined by jan Kawa in 2017 and is a blend of the Toki Pona word lape and English sleep.[1]
sitelen pona
The sitelen pona glyph for slape (slape) combines that of lape (lape) with the Latin letter S.
References
- ↑ jan Kawa [@j.kawa]. (25 June 2017). [Message posted in the
#toki-pona
channel in the ma pona pi toki pona Discord server]. Discord. "Slape li ike".