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.

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

telo

pictogram of wave. compare blissymbol “water”

sitelen sitelen

telo sitelen sitelen

sitelen jelo

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ucsur

U+F196A

luka pona

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