Contionary:Toki Pona/insa

Toki Pona

Glyph origin

Template:Tok-sitelen The sitelen pona glyph represents a dot as the location radical inside a container. Compare tok ("anpa") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}"), tok ("monsi") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}"), tok ("poka") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}"), and tok ("sinpin") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}"), as well as the variant form of tok ("sewi") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}").

Etymology

Template:Etymon From Tok Pisin insait (“inside”), from .

Noun

Toki Pona/insa

1. inside; centre, core
   • 2021 July 18, jan Kapilu, “lon ma tomo pi tenpo pini suli”, in Sonja Lang, compiler, Toki Pona Dictionary, page 401:

     insa pi ma ni la kasi pi kule ale li lon,

     Inside this land, there are plants of all colors,

     (literally, “As for this land's inside…”)

   1. internal organ; stomach
2. in between
3. content

   Synonym: jo

Organs

Adjective

Toki Pona/insa

1. inner, internal
2. central, core
3. neutral

   Synonym: meso

Verb

Toki Pona/insa

1. (intransitive) to be inside
2. (transitive) to insert, to put or send inside

References

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

Further reading

• Template:Tok-interwikt

Anagrams

• sina