meaning
baligyaan, pakigbaligya
see also
semantic space · lipamanka
esun is a type of swap or exchange. Usually it's used to mean "buy," "sell," or "trade." The use of a currency isn't required for something to be esun. Trading baseball cards is esun. esun doesn't imply that both parties lose something. Exchanging knowledge is esun, even though neither party loses knowledge. Some interesting extentions of esun I've seen include using esun for breathing, where one trades the air inside them with the outside world. Seeing esun as a swap more than as a type of buying has had it being used far more often these days in my experience.
ku translations
trading91 shopping88 trade88 deal75 commerce69 purchase67 sales67 buy65 transaction64 market62 sale60 exchange58 sell57 retail56 business48 shop46 commercial36 store36 financial29 enterprise27 economy25 franchise25
pu verbatim
NOUN market, shop, fair, bazaar, business transaction
usage
core · 99% usage
found in pu
coined pre-pu · 2009
origin
Akan · edwamu ‘at market’
coined by jan Sonja
listen
kala Asi
jan Lakuse
commentary
According to jan Sonja, "esun was told [to her] by a taxi driver who spoke a language from the Akan family in West Africa".
sitelen pona
esunnot from a currency symbol (sonja confirmed; said “i think that one is from Mikmaq” but couldn't find a mikmaq symbol similar to it).
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ucsur
U+F190B