tomo

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meaning

indoor space or shelter e.g. room, building, home, tent, shack

see also

poki

semantic space · lipamanka

A tomo contains objects meant to contain things being framed as living. Sometimes living is literal. A family of five is considered living, so their domicile can be considered a tomo. Sometimes living is a metaphor. A dollhouse can be considered a tomo if the hypothetical dolls it can contain are being framed as living, even if they aren't empirically alive. By calling a container intended for nonliving things a "tomo," a speaker is ascribing life to those objects. There's no animacy hierarchy in toki pona, so what is and isn't considered life is up to personal preference and doesn't impact mutual intelligibility.

ku translations

building100 house94 housing86 chamber85 home82 room81 shelter80 residence68 suite59 domestic58 structural54 structure53 facility50 residential50 establishment45 household43 apartment42 cabin42 station39 hall38 construction33 institute33 venue33

pu verbatim

  • NOUN indoor space; building, home, house, room

usage

core · 100% usage

found in pu

coined pre-pu

origin

Esperanto · domo ‘house’

Polish · dom ‘house’

Latin · domus ‘house’

Ancient Greek · δόμος ‘house’

coined by jan Sonja

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kala Asi

jan Lakuse

sitelen pona

tomo

pictogram of a house. compare blissymbol “house”

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