misikeke

meaning

medical item or practice e.g. prescriptions, meditation, exercise, bandages, therapy

ku translations

medication⁴⁶, medicine⁴², cure⁴⁰, medical³⁰, pill³⁰

usage

common · 63% usage

found in ku suli

coined post-pu · 2019

origin

Ojibwe · mashkiki ‘medicine, drug’

coined by jan Sonja

author verbatim

misikeke means medicine

commentary

The word was used privately by jan Sonja up until November 2019, when she mentioned it in the ma pona pi toki pona discord server as a word she was experimenting with. It is believed the word was originally coined in 2007-2009 alongside pan, esun, apeja, monsuta, and pu, but this cannot be proven.