kiwen

meaning

hard object, metal, rock, stone

semantic space · lipamanka

kiwen are things whose form resists changing. This often talks about a hard physical material or object, like a rock or wood or crystal. It can describe something's material, so a chair made out of a hard material could be kiwen. It is additionally possible to talk about nonphysical things using kiwen, but by using kiwen to describe nonphysical things, their forms are being framed as resisting change. For example, I can describe a recipe as kiwen. With some explaining, this might mean that in order for me to consider it my recipe, it must not change, and if it does change it would no longer be my recipe.

ku translations

solid⁵, rock⁵, stone⁵, hard object⁴, concrete³, metal³, steel³, iron³, firm³, stiff³, silver², plastic²

pu verbatim

NOUN hard object, metal, rock, stone

usage

core · 99% usage

found in pu

coined pre-pu

origin

Finnish · kiven, genitive of kivi ‘stone’

by jan Sonja

commentary

Coined in a poll in 2002.

sitelen pona

kiwen

pictogram of a rock or a gem

sitelen sitelen

kiwen sitelen sitelen

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ucsur

U+F191B

audio

kala Asi

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