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
sitelen pona
pilinfrom heart symbol (♡). compare blissymbol “feeling”
sitelen sitelen
sitelen jelo
❤️
sitelen Emosi
❤️
ucsur
U+F194E