silapa

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

meaning

giraffe

usage

sandbox · 0% usage

found in no book

coined post-ku · 2021

origin

Polish · żyrafa ‘giraffe’

coined by jan Kita

author verbatim

:nimisin: ***silapa*** – giraffe; to make life even harder for sitelen pona font makers by introducing a vertically extendable glyph

commentary

Customarily written on multiple lines with a long "neck" composed of the letter "i" (originally the first "a"), like so:

si

i

ilapa

sitelen pona

silapa