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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>==Toki Pona==<br />
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===Glyph origin===<br />
{{tok-sitelen}}<br />
* {{m|tok|sitelen pona}}: From a {{w|Miꞌkmaw hieroglyphic writing|Mi'kmaq hieroglyph}}, according to Sonja Lang in 2021.<ref>{{cite-web|url=https://discord.com/channels/301377942062366741/301377942062366741/813973250320760852|last=Lang|first=Sonja|site=Discord|date=2021-02-24|text=i think that one is from Mikmaq}}</ref> The best known match is [[File:Micmac hieroglyphs 1866 - line 6 col 2.svg|x16px|class=skin-invert-image]] ({{m|mic|kisna}}/{{m|mic|gisna}}, "or (else), either"), but any semantic correlation is unclear. A [[folk etymology]] had assumed a connection to a currency symbol such as [[£]].<br />
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===Etymology===<br />
{{coined|tok|Sonja Lang|in=as of 2007}}, from a term that "was told to [her] by a taxi driver who spoke a language from the {{w|Akan languages|Akan family}} in {{w|West Africa}}". Many have posited that it comes from {{der|tok|ak|edwamu|t=market}}. Previously thought to be from {{der|tok|fr-aca|échange|t=exchange}}.<br />
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===Pronunciation===<br />
{{tok-IPA}}<br />
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===Noun===<br />
{{head|tok|noun}}<br />
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# [[shop]], [[store]], [[market]], [[fair]], [[bazaar]], [[retail]], place of [[business]]<br />
# [[transaction]], [[trade]], [[deal]]; [[sale]], [[purchase]], [[commerce]]<br />
# [[business]], [[enterprise]], [[franchise]], [[company]]<br />
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{{c|tok|Shops}}<br />
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===Verb===<br />
{{head|tok|verb}}<br />
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# {{lb|tok|transitive|intransitive}} to [[exchange]], [[trade]], to [[barter]]<br />
## to exchange for [[money]]; to [[buy]], to [[sell]]<br />
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===Adjective===<br />
{{head|tok|adj}}<br />
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# {{lb|tok|relational}} [[business]]; [[commercial]], [[financial]]<br />
#: {{ux|tok|tenpo '''esun'''|inline=1|a week, a '''sales''' event|lit=time of '''business'''}}<br />
#: {{ux|tok|kulupu '''esun'''|inline=1|company|lit='''commercial''' group}}<br />
# [[traded]], [[exchanged]]<br />
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===References===<br />
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* {{R:Toki Pona: The Language of Good|page=126|entry=true}}<br />
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===Further reading===<br />
* {{tok-interwikt}}</div>wikt>Jlwoodwa