Contionary:Toki Pona/leko

Toki Pona

Glyph origin

• tok ("sitelen pona") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}"): A double-bordered square, for distinction from tok ("lipu") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}"), by analogy to tok ("sike") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}").

Etymology

From , from Danish Lego, from da ("leg godt") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}") or Finnish lohko (“block, section”).

Noun

Toki Pona/leko

1. square, cube
2. block, brick, corner
3. (rare) stair, stairs

Usage notes

• This word was created by Sonja Lang before the publication of her book Toki Pona: The Language of Good (2014) and not included in it. It has since been recognized as essential vocabulary (nimi ku suli) by Lang in her 2021 publication The Toki Pona Dictionary.

Further reading

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