we (particle)
we is a marginal particle that transitions from one complete sentence to another.
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| Pronunciation | /we/ |
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| Usage | 2023: Not notable (1%) Most speakers don't understand this word.
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| Book and era | No book |
| Part of speech | Particle |
For technical reasons, this particle is often differentiated from the content word we as we1 in Linku and fonts with ASCII transcription, despite predating the content word by several years.
Etymology
The word we is derived from colloquial Mexican Spanish güey, meaning "dude, guy"; Linku compares this to the use of English man as a "sentence tag". It was coined by jan inwin in 2019.
Function
sitelen pona
The sitelen pona glyph for we (we1) depicts a midline ellipsis. It happens to resemble three instances of the middle dot (..), itself a common form of sentence punctuation in sitelen pona, in one character space.
See also
Further reading
- "we1" on lipu Linku