meaning
reptile, amphibian, scaly creature, crawling creature
semantic space · lipamanka
akesi are creatures. they tend to be cold to the touch. When they move quickly, they go back and forth on sprawling legs or slither or squirm back and forth across the ground if they lack legs. They're close to the ground. They usually lay eggs. The contents of this semantic space is based off of a pilot study I conducted in 2023 with sample size 98 about the lexical semantics of akesi.
pu verbatim
- NOUN non-cute animal; reptile, amphibian
ku translations
reptile96 frog56
usage
core · 99% usage
found in pu
coined pre-pu
origin
Dutch · hagedis ‘lizard’
coined by jan Sonja
listen
kala Asi
jan Lakuse
commentary
akesi used to mean "non-cute animal," and is defined this way in pu, but this definition has fallen out of use and was later removed in the pu annotations published with ku.
sitelen pona
akesi akesi2animal radical; pictogram of a lizard. radical represents eyes
sitelen sitelen
sitelen jelo
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sitelen Emosi
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ucsur
U+F1901