meaning
experience e.g. emotion, feeling, touch; heart (physical or emotional)
semantic space · lipamanka
pilin is some sort of sensory quallia. pilin can refer just as easily to internal senses as it can to external ones, so pilin can mean both touch and emote. most speakers use pilin to mean "opinion" as well, framing an opinion as some sort of internal sensory experience.
ku translations
emotion100 feeling100 feel92 sentiment83 mood80 emotionally76 heart70 sense69 attitude64 emotional62 notion55 opinion55 assume50 hypothesis50 impression50 perceive50 deem47 assumption40 believe40 thinking40 thought39 speculation38 conscience36 suppose36 experience35 stimulus33 reaction30 suspicion30 belief29 idea27 perception27 touch27 consider25 estimated25 outlook25 mentally24 think24
pu verbatim
- NOUN heart (physical or emotional)
- ADJECTIVE feeling (an emotion, a direct experience)
usage
core · 100% usage
found in pu
coined pre-pu
origin
Tok Pisin · pilim ‘feel’
English · -im ‘him’
English · him
coined by jan Sonja
listen
kala Asi
jan Lakuse
sitelen pona
pilinfrom heart symbol (♡). compare blissymbol “feeling”
sitelen sitelen
sitelen jelo
❤️
sitelen Emosi
❤️
ucsur
U+F194E