meaning
water, liquid, fluid, wet substance; beverages
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
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