telo

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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

telo

pictogram of wave. compare blissymbol “water”

sitelen sitelen

telo sitelen sitelen

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ucsur

U+F196A

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