meaning
interior, dins, centre, entre, mig, punt mig, intern
semantic space · lipamanka
insa talks about things inside of things. Commonly, this is used to describe a location. The location inside of a car is insa. It can also be used to describe objects that are inside of things. Someone's organs are insa. insa doesn't need to be contained completely, it can just mean "in between." A book in the middle of a bookshelf is insa. The space between two city buildings is insa. It can be used more abstractly too. When compared to a head, a mind is insa. In the context of good and bad, insa can be neutral. When compared to hot and cold, insa can be lukewarm. If anything is being framed as inside of something else, it falls under the semantic space of insa.
ku translations
inner100, internal100, interior93, centre91, guts71, core67, central60, inside58, middle56, belly54, stomach41, internal organ38, within35, insert31, amid27, between27, content27
pu verbatim
NOUN centre, content, inside, between; internal organ, stomach
usage
core · 100% usage
found in pu
coined pre-pu
origin
Tok Pisin · insait ‘inside, center, stomach’
English · inside
coined by jan Sonja
sitelen pona
insalocation radical + “container”; compare blissymbol “in”
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ucsur
U+F190F