meaning
round or circular thing; ball, circle, cycle, sphere, wheel; of one year
see also
semantic space · lipamanka
sike represents round objects and cycles. sike can be used to refer to the smoothness of an edge. sike can be used to talk about marbles and flat disks such as cookies. sike can talk about wheels or balls or even gyroscopes. Because sike can also represent cycles, it can be used to describe a repeated action. "toki sike" could be repeating the same thing over and over again. "utala sike" could be a never ending cycle of war, or some online discourse that just won't end. Wether it's physical or not, a sike will always loop around and end where it started.
ku translations
circle100, round100, sphere82, ball77, loop71, cycle70, wheel64, disc59, globe55, circuit46, spin36, ring33, surround31, curve25, rolling25, spot25, orbit23, twist21, roll20
pu verbatim
NOUN round or circular thing; ball, circle, cycle, sphere, wheel
ADJECTIVE of one year
usage
core · 100% usage
found in pu
coined pre-pu
origin
English · circle
by jan Sonja
sitelen pona
siketwo circles, perhaps to distinguish from ijo. alternatively outline of a thick empty circle
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ucsur
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