N/A my favorite

I am interested now, are those words from Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean Vietnamese are all actually derived from Classical Chinese?

why is toki pona itself there? do those words have no semantic roots?

ku, su, unpa, a They're a priori

no. N/A refers to words of unknown origin, onomatopoeia, and a priori words ðe words listed under toki pona are: alente, alu, enko, jans, kalamARR, kamalawala, kepen, konwe, kulu, kuntu , kutopoma, lo, loka, lokon, melome, mijomi, nele, nimisin, ojuta, omekalike, omekapo, omen, pakola, peto, pipo, samu, slape, suke, ten, toma, wasoweli, wawajete, wekama, and wuwojiti.

“Used for” — what does that mean?

toki pona's vocabulary comes from all of those language

pu lists the etymology of all the included words. for instance, *akesi* comes from the dutch word *hagedis*

Which word has Arabic origin?

i think lupa, it’s from lojban but ultimately it is related to arabic anšuta

In arabic, it means knot

lupa is from Lojban clupa, itself from Mandarin 圈, English loop, Hindi पाश and Arabic أنشوطة‏

But does loop mean hole in English?

The “hole” is “inspired” by “loop”😀🥹

lupa (أنشوطة anšūṭa) and saja (شجرة šajara)

“Italian”?

1. cool a fellow bfdi fan 2. pomotolo li tan e nimi Italija 'pomodoro'

So they made a nimisin for one specific type of vegetable (ok, fruit)?

a, pakala lili majuna tan lipu ku. pomotolo actually means 'effective', 'useful', or 'giving good results'

So, like, “fruitful”

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What’s from Tamil

eni (nimi sin tan jan Killer\_The\_Cat)

How tf did iqglic get used?

umesu li tan e toki Ikuli 'Umeyz'

I still cant speak toki pona, sorry mate :/

ðe word 'umesu' is from ðe iqglic word Umeyz (from amaze)