Mike Meile
the card is a nice idea. i've found a source for "kipisi"--the word is Inuktitut, composed of kipi-, "cut," and a detransitivizing suffix, -si-. The whole would mean "cut (something,)" with the thing cut being out-of-focus.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/sitelen/permalink/1935672109820498/?comment_id=1935949603126082&reply_comment_id=1941856219202087&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R%22%7D

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Toki Pona Wikipedia talk page

new roots?
I've found one of the two new roots, pan, but not the other. This is just the kind of thing someone might come here for. Anyone know what the other one is? kwami (talk) 22:15, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

From Sonjaaa's talk page:

pan is from Chinese for rice. esun is from Akan. I forgot the other ones.--Sonjaaa (talk) 09:55, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks! (Silly me, I thought pan was from Spanish bread.) kwami (talk) 19:44, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

Is esun just market/shop/store, or can it also be a verb buy/sell/barter? Also, do you have the Akan form? The closest I can come is a verb 'to value', but it's not a good match. Thanks, kwami (talk) 18:28, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Hi again. I've checked out another Akan dictionary, but still can't find anything that resembles esun. Do you remember the Akan form? kwami (talk) 07:07, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Ah, I found edwam 'at market', from edwa 'market'. Could this be it? Thanks, kwami (talk) 07:02, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

I dunno. My source was a taxi driver, and he said something like "edjum" ;) --Sonjaaa (talk) 22:20, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
I bet that's it, then. The full form is e-dwa-mu, where dw is approx. [dʒ], and one person I asked said this does get shortened to something like [edʒum]. (mu is the locative; I don't know what the e is.) kwami (talk) 23:01, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Toki_Pona

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I'm looking for the etymology of the old TP pronoun 'iki' (he, she, it, they)

it is replaced by 'ona' probably to avoid the confusion with 'ike' (bad, complicated)

I thought this one would be easy to find, but jea, was I wrong !

The only etymon I can come up with until now is the Javanese 'iki' which means "this, that" ..

http://learn101.org/javanese_grammar.php

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kapa

< Portuguese 'capa'
(geology) a top layer of rock

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/capa

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apeja

< Finnish 'häpeä' (shame, disgrace, dishonor, reproach)

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