uta

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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

uta sitelen sitelen

sitelen jelo

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sitelen Emosi

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ucsur

U+F1970

luka pona

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