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
Acadian French · de l’eau ‘(some) water’
coined by jan Sonja
listen
kala Asi
jan Lakuse
sitelen pona
telopictogram of wave. compare blissymbol “water”
sitelen sitelen
sitelen jelo
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sitelen Emosi
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ucsur
U+F196A