pomotolo

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This word is in the sandbox, so almost no speakers will understand it.

meaning

effective, useful, give good results

see also

pona, ken, wawa

ku translations

tomato7

usage

sandbox · 2% usage

found in ku lili

coined post-pu · 2019

origin

Italian · pomodoro ‘tomato’

coined by jan Kawa

listen

kala Asi

author verbatim

Effective, useful, “to give [good] results”

commentary

From the time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in Berlin in the 1980s, for which people often used tomato-shaped timers. In ku, "pomotolo" was given as one of the translations of "tomato", presumably due to speakers misusing or misunderstanding the word.

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