meaning
mouth, lips, throat, consuming orifice
semantic space · lipamanka
uta is a mouth or oral opening. astomatous objects do not have uta, but all other objects do. by using uta to describe something, you are framing it with all the connotations of an animal's mouth. the mouth of a venus flytrap could very easily be something else, but using uta for it emphasizes that it consumes. uta often create noises like vocalizations, so people tend to call voice chats and spoken language "toki uta."
ku translations
mouth100 lip47 kiss44 jaw42 bite31 chew25
pu verbatim
- NOUN mouth,lips, oral cavity, jaw
usage
core · 99% usage
found in pu
coined pre-pu
origin
Serbo-Croatian · уста usta ‘mouth’
coined by jan Sonja
listen
kala Asi
jan Lakuse
commentary
The dot in the "uta" sitelen pona is to distinguish luka-uta from moku.
sitelen pona
uta uta2“mouth” with a dot below
sitelen sitelen
sitelen jelo
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sitelen Emosi
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ucsur
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