Contionary:Toki Pona/esun

Toki Pona

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Glyph origin

• tok ("sitelen pona") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}"): From a Mi'kmaq hieroglyph, according to Sonja Lang in 2021. The best known match is (mic ("kisna") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}")/mic ("gisna") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}"), "or (else), either"), but any semantic correlation is unclear. A folk etymology had assumed a connection to a currency symbol such as £.

Etymology

Template:Coined, from a term that "was told to [her] by a taxi driver who spoke a language from the Akan family in West Africa". Many have posited that it comes from Akan edwamu (“market”). Previously thought to be from Acadian French échange (“exchange”).

Noun

Toki Pona/esun

1. shop, store, market, fair, bazaar, retail, place of business
2. transaction, trade, deal; sale, purchase, commerce
3. business, enterprise, franchise, company

Shops

Verb

Toki Pona/esun

1. (transitive, intransitive) to exchange, trade, to barter
   1. to exchange for money; to buy, to sell

Adjective

Toki Pona/esun

1. (relational) business; commercial, financial

   tenpo esun ― a week, a sales event (literally, “time of business”)

   kulupu esun ― company (literally, “commercial group”)

2. traded, exchanged

References

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

Further reading

• Template:Tok-interwikt