wuwojiti

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This word is obscure, so most speakers will not understand it.

meaning

to use one or more of the "banned" syllables wu, wo, ji, or ti; to break toki pona phonotactics

usage

obscure · 22% usage

found in no book

coined post-pu · 2018

origin

التوكي بونا · wu ‘(sound)’

التوكي بونا · wo ‘(sound)’

التوكي بونا · ji ‘(sound)’

التوكي بونا · ti ‘(sound)’

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commentary

May be seen not as a word in toki pona, but as a kind of memorisation tool in English to refer to the "banned" syllables. Occasionally extended to wuwojitinmanna to include the illegal consecutive nasal consonants.

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wuwojiti