Contionary:Toki Pona/pana

Toki Pona

Glyph origin

• tok ("sitelen pona") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}"): From tok ("luka") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}") (a hand) + emitters. Compare tok ("kalama") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}"), tok ("kepeken") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}"), tok ("moku") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}"), tok ("pali") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}"), tok ("seli") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}"), tok ("sona") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}"), tok ("toki") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}").

Etymology

Template:Etymon From Finnish panna (“put, set, place”).

Verb

Toki Pona/pana

1. (transitive, intransitive) to give (off); to send, emit, provide, put, or release

   sina pana e sona wawa.

   You gave powerful knowledge.

   tomo ni li pana e telo nasa.

   This building is giving off a strange fluid.

   • 2024 March 20, jan Alonola, “nimi pi ilo kalama”, in lipu tenpo‎^[1], number (nanpa) kalama, page 7:

     sina pana e kon tawa ilo la, ona li kalama.

     If you blow air into the instrument, it sounds.

2. (intransitive) to be given (off)
3. (intransitive) to be an act of giving

Noun

Toki Pona/pana

1. that which is given (off); a gift or emission
2. the act of giving

Adjective

Toki Pona/pana

1. (relational) giving; given, provided, or emitted

Anagrams

• anpa

References

• Template:R:Toki Pona: The Language of Good