#tan nimi pi lon ala

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proud niche
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nimi pi toki pona la, o toki e tan musi a!

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namako - From the Chinese 那么苦 (so bitter!)

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lete - From Spanish/Italian leche/latte for milk, traditionally served cold

zinc star
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SPANISH MENTIONED 🔥🔥🔥

proud niche
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nanpa - English, non-paw. While mathamaticians struggle to nail down a definition for "number", it is generally agreed that numbers are not animal paws, hence the term non-paw.

lean kayak
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nasa - hindi nasha

zinc star
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suwi - from French sous vide (i just thought of this randomly idk how it would come to mean suwi don't ask)

proud niche
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lili - deriving from the fictional island of liliput, where the people are little compared to Gulliver

true oxide
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sin originated in the 15th century as an acronym for Stuff Is New

native steeple
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musi - English "music"
tawa - English "travel"
lape - Thai "หลับ" to sleep

true oxide
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weka <- german Wecker (ilo Wecker li weka e ken lape)

native steeple
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suwi came from "Zoo wee"

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This is to make the exclamation "Sweet mother!" (suwi mama) be Zoo wee mama

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jan and ale came from the same word split in twain "y'all"

warm shadow
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kama - spanish "cama"

native steeple
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jan ale -> j'ale -> j'al -> y'all

wise rock
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kalama - arabic كلامَ (speech)

calm copper
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Greek πόνα (they (sing.) hurt) --> pona
the meaning went to the opposite side because it was funny to do that

native steeple
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e come from "at"

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For example

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mi lukin e ona

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I'm looking "at" 'em

true oxide
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pakala is from finnish perkele

calm copper
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sama < Greek ξανά, ξανα- (because if you ξαναπές something, you're πεςing the same thing again)

native steeple
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sitelen < Thai "สีเทเล่น" (color splashed for fun) because if you splash color on something it'd become a painting

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owe < English "always" because Big Brother is always watching you

slender root
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lipu from french "livre" (book)

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anpa from english "humble"

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pakala from maori "pakaru"

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(swear word sense from english "f***er")

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lawa from english "lord"

tall timber
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majuna actually originally meant young land

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but since land is all so old, that translates to being old for things other than land

wise rock
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poki - pocket english

native steeple
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ko - Thai "โคลน" (mud)
It was coined after kon was taken

native steeple
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pu, ku, su - English "boo" + "k" + "s"

slender root
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books -> buks -> bukusu -> pu, ku, su

zinc star
lean kayak
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interacting with her video series about tok bona

calm copper
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pan comes from biang (biang)
biang → ban → pan

mossy merlin
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epiku comes from "happy good"

calm copper
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helicopter comes from the greek words ήλιος (helios) + κόπτω (kopto), meaning "sun" and "chop" respectively. This is because the blades of a helicopter chop the rays of the sun.
This is also why its called a chopper sometimes

tall timber
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I love this

slender root
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"mandarin" is short for "modern standard chinese"

native steeple
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y'all come from "jan ale"

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grassy come from "kasi"

tall timber
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owe comes from o as a content word verb, followed by e
ona li o e mi - they command me
ona li owe mi - they are my commander (negative connotation)

mossy merlin
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pu - from Chinese 樸／朴 (pǔ, lit. 'unworked wood'), used as a Daoist metaphor for the natural state of humanity.

proud niche
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seems plausible actually 🧐

calm copper
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loje comes from toki pona jelo, with the syllables swapped

slender root
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sitelen comes from english "site" + len, because cloth is the site of many drawings

mossy merlin
molten cypress
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ala - from malayalam അല്ല (alla) meaning isnt

slender root
calm copper