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
kiwenpictogram of a rock or a gem
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ucsur
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