pini

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meaning

finish, stop, prevent; close, disable, turn off; ended, past; edge, end, conclusion

see also

open, kama

semantic space · lipamanka

pini is the moment something comes to a close. this can be as simple as a door shutting or a light turning off, but it can be more abstract, like a department at a college fizzling out. pini has no connotations of irriversability, unlike "pinis" in its language of origin (tok pisin), which can grammatically specify irriversability.

ku translations

end100 finish94 shut87 ending80 cease70 conclude70 outcome70 close (v)65 closed64 latter55 quit55 final50 complete47 stop47 off44 cancel43 conclusion40 result40 previous36 pause33 interrupt32 lock30 over29

pu verbatim

  • ADJECTIVE ago, completed, ended, finished, past

usage

core · 100% usage

found in pu

coined pre-pu

origin

multiple possibilities

Acadian French · fini ‘finished, completed’

Tok Pisin · pinis ‘finish (perfective aspect)’

English · finish

coined by jan Sonja

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commentary

Some proficient speakers use pini as a preverb that means "to stop," that goes along with the complimentary open preverb "start to"

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