olin

olin describes the act of being emotionally bonded to someone something. In usage, these bonds are typically positive and strong. For example, a very good friend, a partner, a family member, or a pet. Not only could the love for a very good friend be olin, but so can the friend. This can be used with objects too. The bond between many toki ponists and the language toki pona is olin. This isn't the same thing as liking something. By using olin, you are evoking some sort of emotional bond. Note that olin doesn't describe all emotional bonds between two things. So if I don't like someone a lot but I still respect them deeply, I could still use olin to describe the respect, but probably not how I don't like them. Using olin for respect is a less common usage.

Some people do actually use olin far more broadly. For example, a minor form of attraction, like enjoying a food a lot. This is less common in my experience, often less likely to be understood, and the attitudes towards this usage are often negative, mostly because it seems like an anglicization. However, some people take it further and use olin to talk about the attraction between magnets, or the delicate bond between math and physics. If you do choose to use olin more broadly, please don't stop where English does and consider taking the meaning a bit farther in a more creative way.