meaning
arriving, coming, future, summoned; (pv.) to become, manage to, succeed in
semantic space · lipamanka
kama is a strong metaphor in toki pona. To arrive at a location and to arrive at a state of being are the same concept in toki pona. This means that kama can refer to arriving home to eat dinner, arriving at school, or the moment you become an akesi because an evil prescriptivist wizard cursed you for using too many nimisin. This of course describes kama's use as a preverb, in which its meaning is close to "become." This can imply the start, body, or end of this process. It's easy to describe the reverse of whatever process kama preverb is representing by negating the word that follows it, i.e. "kama X ala."
ku translations
coming93, come91, arrival90, arrive88, become78, upcoming71, emerging69, emerge67, happen62, occur54, next36, arise33, developmental33, induce31, visit31, trigger29, event27, phenomenon27
pu verbatim
ADJECTIVE arriving, coming, future, summoned
PRE-VERB to become, manage to, succeed in
usage
core · 100% usage
found in pu
coined pre-pu
origin
Tok Pisin · kamap ‘event, arrive, happen, become, bring about, summon’
coined by jan Sonja
sitelen pona
kamamotion radical; legs facing to the left. compare tawa and blissymbol “walk”
sitelen sitelen
sitelen jelo
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sitelen Emosi
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ucsur
U+F1916
audio
kala Asi
jan Lakuse