meaning
liquids e.g. water, gasoline, soda, lava, soup, oil, ink
semantic space · lipamanka
telo can be liquids and other things that don’t hold a shape. Water, milk, and vinegar are telo. telo can be more viscous. Oils are telo. telo can be used less literally, to describe things that aren’t physical objects. The changing aspect of a way of speaking toki pona that doesn’t stay the same can be telo. If something changes form and doesn’t hold its shape, it fits within telo’s semantic space.
ku translations
fluid100 water94 wet73 wash52 pond45 pool42 drink33 shower30 lake29
pu verbatim
NOUN water, liquid, fluid, wet substance; beverage
usage
core · 100% usage
found in pu
coined pre-pu
origin
Acadian French · de l’eau ‘(some) water’
coined by jan Sonja
listen
kala Asi
jan Lakuse
sitelen pona
telopictogram of wave. compare blissymbol “water”
sitelen sitelen
sitelen jelo
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sitelen Emosi
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ucsur
U+F196A