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.
pu verbatim
- NOUN water, liquid, fluid, wet substance; beverage
ku translations
fluid100 water94 wet73 wash52 pond45 pool42 drink33 shower30 lake29
usage
core · 100% usage
found in pu
coined pre-pu
origin
fub(p)bap(p)bus(p)fuf(t)sol(t)bop(p)ga(f) gin(t)vek(t)bis(f)sub(b)san(t)ap(t)vlir(t)sang(b)es(p)u(t)vom(b)ngo(p)da(t)grog(f)kay(f)vlim(p)ga(f)vlim(p)ga(f) · 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
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