pana

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meaning

give, send, emit, provide, put, release

semantic space · lipamanka

The semantic space of pana contains all acts that set objects in motion. This can be a type of emmission. The act of a fire giving off heat it pana. The act of a child laughing is pana, because the child is emitting laughter, setting it in motion. Throwing a baseball, hitting a hockey puck, and kicking a football (the kind that Americans call a "soccer ball") are all pana. Defenestration is a type of pana, because you are setting something in motion (out a window). the object that does the act of pana doesn't have to set something in motion away from itself. Buying a piano online for a friend is pana, or at the very least the act of having the piano be delivered is pana. Less physical objects can be the subject of pana too: knowledge, advice, or good feelings (bad ones, too!).

pana as a noun is used to mean either the act of setting something in motion, or something that has been set in motion. So a gift is a type of pana, and so is an offering, a packedge, a ball I have thrown, etc.

ku translations

give100 put93 deliver90 grant85 delivery82 send80 submit78 provide73 transfer71 distribute65 distribution58 donate57 appoint55 contribute53 output52 given50 publishing50 share50 yield50 assign47 deploy47 offering47 deposit45 convey44 emission40 input40 lend40 offer40 supply40 pour37 publish37 release37 export36 gift36 provision36 shared36 serve35 spend35 administer33 attach33 devote33 donation33 serving33 spread33 added31 contribution31 post31 apply30 toss30 transmission30 add29 bring29 present29 install28 introduce26 show26 dedicate25 exhibit25 insert25

pu verbatim

  • VERB to give, send, emit, provide, put, release

usage

core · 100% usage

found in pu

coined pre-pu

origin

multiple possibilities

Finnish · panna ‘put, set, place’

Swahili · pana ‘give to each other’

coined by jan Sonja

listen

kala Asi

jan Lakuse

sitelen pona

pana

emission modifier + luka

sitelen sitelen

pana sitelen sitelen

sitelen jelo

🙌

sitelen Emosi

📤

ucsur

U+F194C