Toki Pona to English Dictionary

a

• Etymology: onomatopoeia.
• Particle: shows emphasis or emotion

aja

• Etymology: Arabic حياة haya ‘life’.
• Noun: life
• Verb: to live, to be alive
• Modifier: alive

ajuta

• Etymology: Portuguese ajuda 'help, aid, assistance'.
• Noun: help, support
• Verb: to help, to support

akesi

• Etymology: Dutch hagedis ‘lizard’.
• Noun: reptile or amphibian

ala

• Etymology: Georgian არა ara ‘no’.
• Noun: nothing, negation
• Verb: to negate
• Modifier: no, not, none
• Numeral: zero
• Particle: negative answer

alasa

• Etymology: Acadian French à la chasse ‘hunting’, ultimately from French chasser ‘to hunt’.
• Pre-verb: to try to, to strive to
• Verb: to hunt, to forage, to gather, to harvest
• Modifier: hunting, foraging

alen

• Etymology: Portuguese alem 'beyond'.
• Preposition: more, beyond

ali

• Etymology: Dutch alle ‘all’.
• Noun: abundance, everything, universe
• Verb: to complete
• Modifier: all, abundant, countless, bountiful, every, plentiful, complete, whole

anpa

• Etymology: Acadian French en bas ‘below’.
• Noun: bottom, lower part
• Verb: to bow down
• Modifier: bowing down, downward, humble, lowly, dependent, below

ante

• Etymology: Dutch ander ‘other, different’.
• Noun: difference
• Verb: to change, to alter, to modify
• Modifier: different, altered, changed, other

anu

• Etymology: Georgian ან an ‘or’.
• Noun: decision, poll
• Verb: to choose, to decide
• Particle: or

apeja

• Etymology: Finnish häpeä ‘shame, disgrace, dishonor’.
• Noun: guilt, shame, disgrace
• Verb: to accuse, to single out, to expose, to disgrace, to dishonor
• Modifier: ashamed, disgraced, dishonored, guilty

awen

• Etymology: Dutch houden ‘keep, care for, hold (in a particular state)’.
• Noun: wait, safety
• Pre-verb: to continue to
• Verb: to stay, to wait, to remain, to keep
• Modifier: enduring, kept, protected, safe, waiting, staying, remaining, stationary, permanent, sedentary

e

• Etymology: A priori word.
• Preposition: before the direct object

en

• Etymology: Dutch en ‘and’.
• Particle: between multiple subjects, between coordinate modifiers in a pi-phrase

enujo

• Etymology: French ennuyeuse 'boring, annoying, tedious, dull'.
• Noun: boredom, dullness
• Verb: to bore
• Modifier: boring, annoying, tedious, dull

epi

• Etymology: English heavy.
• Noun: weight
• Verb: to weigh
• Modifier: heavy, thick, fat, solid

esun

• Etymology: Asante egŭaso, 'market, bazaar'.
• Noun: market, shop, fair, bazaar, business transaction
• Verb: to buy
• Modifier: bought

ewin

• Etymology: Gaelic ewin 'clove, fingernail, prong, claw'.
• Noun: nail, hoof, claw, fingernail, prong, segment, talon, clove, horn
• Verb: scratch

ijo

• Etymology: Esperanto io ‘something’, ultimately from Romance i- ‘(relative pronoun root)’.
• Noun: thing, phenomenon, object, matter, something
• Verb: to objectify

ike

• Etymology: Finnish ilkeä ‘bad, mean, wicked’.
• Noun: evil
• Verb: to make bad, to worsen, to have a negative effect upon, to be bad
• Modifier: bad, negative, evil, wrong

ilo

• Etymology: Esperanto ilo ‘tool’, ultimately from German -el ‘(agent suffix)’ {cf Schlüssel ‘key’ ~ schließen ‘lock, shut’}.
• Noun: tool, implement, machine, device, engine

in

• Etymology: English in.
• Preposition: located at, present at

inkatan

• Etymology: Malay ingatan 'memory'.
• Noun: memory
• Verb: to remember

insa

• Etymology: Tok Pisin insait ‘inside, center, stomach’, ultimately from English inside.
• Noun: internal organ, stomach, center, content, middle, inside
• Modifier: central, between, middle

intawo

• Etymology: Zulu indawo 'place, zone, area'.
• Noun: place, space, point, zone, room, area, region

ita

• Etymology: Arabic إذا 'iidha 'if'.
• Preposition: inverse la (between the main sentence and the context phrase)
• Particle: inverse la (between the main sentence and the context phrase)

jaki

• Etymology: English yucky.
• Noun: dirt, pollution, garbage, filth
• Verb: to pollute, to make dirty
• Modifier: disgusting, obscene, sickly, toxic, unclean, unsanitary

jan

• Etymology: Cantonese 人 jan ‘person’.
• Noun: human being, person, somebody
• Modifier: human, somebody's, personal, of people

jasima

• Etymology: Turkish yansıtmak ‘to reflect, reverberate’.
• Noun: mirror, reflection
• Verb: to reflect, to resound, to mirror, to be on the opposite/polar end of
• Modifier: reflected, mirrored, opposite

jatila

• Etymology: Marathi जटिल jaṭila 'complex, difficult'.
• Noun: complexity, difficulty
• Verb: to hinder, to obstruct
• Modifier: complex, difficult

jelo

• Etymology: English yellow.
• Modifier: yellow, yellowish

jo

• Etymology: Mandarin 有 yǒu ‘have’.
• Verb: to have, to carry, to contain, to hold

jun

• Etymology: Turkish yün 'wool'.
• Noun: hair, wool, fur, feather

juna

• Etymology: Esperanto juna 'young'.
• Modifier: young

jupa

• Etymology: Mandarin Chinese 右 yòu 'right'.
• Noun: the right side
• Modifier: right (directional)

kasi

• Etymology: Finnish kasvi ‘plant’.
• Noun: plant, vegetation, herb, leaf, grass, tree, wood
• Verb: to grow (in the ground)
• Modifier: vegetable, vegetal

ken

• Etymology: Tok Pisin ken, ultimately from English can.
• Noun: possibility, ability, power to do things, permission
• Pre-verb: to be able to, to be allowed to, can, may
• Verb: to make possible, to enable, to allow, to permit
• Modifier: possible, allowed

kenta

• Etymology: Latin centum 'hundred'.
• Numeral: one hundred

kepeken

• Etymology: Dutch gebruiken ‘to use’.
• Verb: to use
• Modifier: used

ki

• Etymology: Māori ki 'to, towards, into'.
• Preposition: to, toward, for, from the perspective of

kili

• Etymology: Georgian ხილი xili ‘fruit’.
• Noun: fruit, edible vegetable, mushroom

kilo

• Etymology: International word 'kilo/kilogram'.
• Noun: kilogram

kin

• Etymology: Finnish -kin ‘too, also, still’.
• Modifier: too, also, as well, indeed, even
• Particle: confirmation

kipisi

• Etymology: Inuktitut kipisi ‘cut’.
• Noun: split, cut
• Verb: to split, to cut, to sever
• Modifier: sharp

kiwen

• Etymology: Finnish kiven, genitive of kivi ‘stone’.
• Noun: hard thing, stone, gravel, rock, pebble, mineral, lava, magma
• Modifier: hard, solid, stone-like, made of stone or metal

ko

• Etymology: Cantonese 膏 gou ‘cream, paste’.
• Noun: clay, clinging form, dough, semi-solid, paste

koli

• Etymology: Corean 꼬리 kkoli 'tail'.
• Noun: tail, queue, trail, brush, stem

koma

• Etymology: Spanish goma 'rubber'.
• Noun: plastic, rubber, tire, condom
• Modifier: plastic, rubber

kon

• Etymology: Mandarin 空氣 kōngqì ‘air, atmosphere, ambience, opinion’.
• Noun: air, wind, breath, essence, spirit, hidden reality, unseen agent
• Verb: to breathe
• Modifier: air-like, gaseous, ethereal

kule

• Etymology: Acadian French couleur ‘color’.
• Noun: color, paint
• Verb: to color, to paint
• Modifier: colourful, pigmented, painted, of or relating to the LGBT+

kulupu

• Etymology: Tongan kulupu, ultimately from English group.
• Noun: community, group, company, nation, society, tribe, people
• Verb: to group, to join, to cluster
• Modifier: communal, shared, public, of the society

kute

• Etymology: Acadian French écouter ‘listen’.
• Noun: ear
• Verb: to hear, to listen, to pay attention to, to obey
• Modifier: auditory

la

• Etymology: Acadian French -la, proximal & topical suffix.
• Particle: between the context phrase and the main sentence

lajo

• Etymology: Japanese ラジオ rajio 'radio'.
• Noun: news, information, radio, television, newspaper

lakima

• Etymology: Latin lacrimae 'tears'.
• Noun: sadness, cry, tears
• Verb: to cry
• Modifier: sad

lamo

• Etymology: Nepali लामो lāmō 'long'.
• Modifier: long, tall, extended, prolonged

lanpan

• Etymology: Greek λαμβάνω lamváno ‘take, seize, grasp, receive’.
• Verb: to catch, to receive, to get, to take, to seize

lansan

• Etymology: German langsam 'slow'.
• Modifier: slow, slowly, gentle, gently

lape

• Etymology: Dutch slapen ‘sleep’.
• Noun: sleep, rest
• Verb: to sleep, to rest
• Modifier: sleeping, resting

laso

• Etymology: Welsh glas ‘blue, inexperienced’, ultimately from Proto-Brythonic glas ‘green, blue’.
• Modifier: blue

lawa

• Etymology: Serbo-Croatian glava глава ‘head’.
• Noun: head, mind, plan, rule
• Verb: to control, to direct, to guide, to lead, to own, to plan, to regulate, to rule, to steer
• Modifier: main, leading, in charge

le

• Etymology: Mandarin chinese 了 le, perfective marker.
• Preposition: perfective marker

leje

• Etymology: Spanish leyes 'laws'.
• Noun: laws, the Law
• Modifier: lawful, legal

leko

• Etymology: English Lego, ultimately from Danish Lego ‘leg godt’ ‘play well’.
• Noun: square, block, cube, stairs
• Verb: to climb
• Modifier: blocky, rectangular

len

• Etymology: Acadian French linge ‘clothing’.
• Noun: cloth, clothing, fabric, textile, cover, layer of privacy
• Modifier: textile

lentu

• Etymology: Basque leundu 'smooth'.
• Modifier: smooth, fluent, flowing

lete

• Etymology: Acadian French frette ‘cold’, ultimately from Old French freit ‘cold’.
• Noun: cold
• Verb: to cool
• Modifier: cold, cool, uncooked, raw

li

• Etymology: Toki pona li.
• Preposition: imperfective marker

liko

• Etymology: English liquor.
• Noun: alcohol, liquor
• Modifier: alcoholic, drunk, intoxicated

lili

• Etymology: Tok Pisin liklik ‘small, little’, ultimately from Ramoaaina liklik.
• Verb: to reduce, to lessen
• Modifier: few, a bit

linja

• Etymology: Finnish linja ‘line’, ultimately from Old Swedish linia.
• Noun: long and flexible thing, cord, hair, rope, thread, yarn, line, wire

lipu

• Etymology: Finnish lippu ‘flag, banner, ticket’.
• Noun: flat object, book, document, card, paper, ticket, record, website

liso

• Etymology: Portuguese riso, ‘laugh’.
• Noun: laugh, laughter, joke, joy
• Verb: to laugh, to joke
• Modifier: happy, joyful

lita

• Etymology: English liter.
• Noun: liter

loje

• Etymology: Dutch rooie ‘red (inflected)’, rood ‘red’.
• Modifier: red, reddish

lon

• Etymology: Tok Pisin long ‘at, in, on, (spacial particle)’, ultimately from English along.
• Verb: to be real/true, to exist, to be awake, to be there, to be present
• Modifier: real, true, existing
• Particle: affirmative response

luka

• Etymology: Serbo-Croatian ruka рука ‘hand, arm’.
• Noun: arm, hand, tactile organ, wing
• Numeral: five

lukin

• Etymology: Tok Pisin lukim ‘see, look at’, luk ‘look’ (from English look) + -im ‘(transitive suffix)' (from English him, ’em).
• Noun: eye
• Pre-verb: to seek, to look for
• Verb: to look at, to see, to examine, to observe, to read, to watch

lupa

• Etymology: Lojban clupa ‘loop’, ultimately from Mandarin 圈 quān, English loop, Hindi पाश pāś, Arabic أنشوطة‏ ʾanšūṭa.
• Noun: door, hole, orifice, window, cave

ma

• Etymology: Finnish maa ‘earth, land’.
• Noun: earth, land, outdoors, world, country, territory, soil, ground

majuna

• Etymology: Esperanto maljuna ‘old’.
• Modifier: old, ancient

mama

• Etymology: Georgian მამა mama ‘father’.
• Noun: parent, ancestor, creator, originator, caretaker, sustainer

mani

• Etymology: English money.
• Noun: money, cash, savings, wealth
• Verb: to sell

meli

• Etymology: Tok Pisin meri ‘woman, wife, feminine’, ultimately from Tolai mari ‘pretty’ & English Mary.
• Noun: woman, female, feminine person, wife
• Modifier: female

meta

• Etymology: English meter.
• Noun: meter

mi

• Etymology: Esperanto mi ‘I, me’, ultimately from Romance m- ‘(1st person singular oblique)’.
• Noun: I, me, mine
• Modifier: my

mije

• Etymology: Finnish mies ‘man, husband’.
• Noun: man, male, masculine person, husband
• Modifier: male

mijon

• Etymology: Spanish millón 'million'.
• Numeral: one million

mila

• Etymology: Basque mila 'thousand'.
• Numeral: one thousand

mina

• Etymology: mi + na.
• Noun: we, us, ours
• Modifier: our

minuto

• Etymology: Spanish minuto 'minute'.
• Noun: minute

moku

• Etymology: Japanese モグモグ mogumogu ‘munching’.
• Noun: food, drink
• Verb: to eat, to drink, to consume,
• Verb: to eat, to drink, to consume, to swallow, to ingest

moli

• Etymology: Acadian French mourir ‘die’.
• Noun: death
• Verb: to kill, to die, to be dead
• Modifier: dead, dying, deadly, fatal

monsi

• Etymology: Acadian French mon tchu ‘{vulgar} my ass’.
• Noun: back, butt(ocks)
• Modifier: back, behind, rear

monsuta

• Etymology: Japanese モンスター monsutā ‘monster’, ultimately from English monster.
• Noun: monster, fear
• Verb: to fear, to frighten

mu

• Etymology: onomatopoeia.
• Verb: to roar, to bellow, to howl, to moo
• Particle: animal noise or communication, non-speech vocalization

mun

• Etymology: English moon.
• Noun: moon, satellite, astronomical object
• Modifier: lunar, monthly

musi

• Etymology: Esperanto amuzi ‘have fun’, ultimately from French amuser.
• Noun: art, recreation, game, play (of a game)
• Verb: to play
• Modifier: artistic, entertaining, frivolous, playful, funny

mute

• Etymology: Esperanto multe ‘a lot’, ultimately from Latin multus.
• Noun: quantity
• Modifier: many, a lot, much, several, very

na

• Etymology: terminations of sina and ona in toki pona.
• Modifier: some, several, certain, an indeterminate amount
• Particle: plural marker

nalama

• Etymology: Bengali নরম narama 'soft'.
• Modifier: soft, flexible, malleable, tender, gentle, ripe

namako

• Etymology: Persian نمک namak ‘salt’.
• Noun: salt, embellishment, spice

nanpa

• Etymology: Tok Pisin namba ‘number, (ordinal marker)’, ultimately from English number.
• Noun: number
• Verb: to number
• Modifier: numeric

nasa

• Etymology: Unknown origin.
• Modifier: unusual, strange, foolish, crazy, silly, stupid, weird

nasin

• Etymology: Serbo-Croatian način начин ‘way, method’.
• Noun: way, custom, doctrine, method, path, road

nena

• Etymology: Finnish nenä ‘nose’.
• Noun: bump, button, hill, mountain, nose, protuberance, smell
• Verb: to smell

nesi

• Etymology: Igbo n'èzí 'outside, outdoors'.
• Noun: outside, (outer) space
• Modifier: outside

ni

• Etymology: Cantonese 呢 ni ‘this’.
• Noun: this, here, now
• Modifier: this

nimi

• Etymology: Finnish nimi ‘name’.
• Noun: name, word
• Verb: to name

noka

• Etymology: Serbo-Croatian noga нога ‘foot, leg’.
• Noun: foot, leg, organ of locomotion

note

• Etymology: Esperanto norde 'north'.
• Noun: north
• Modifier: north

o

• Etymology: Georgian -ო -o ‘(vocative suffix)’ & English oh.
• Preposition: vocative, imperative, or optative

oke

• Etymology: English okay.
• Particle: acknowledgment or acceptance

olente

• Etymology: Esperanto oriente 'east'.
• Noun: east
• Modifier: east

olin

• Etymology: Serbo-Croatian volim волим ‘I love’.
• Noun: love, compassion, respect, affection
• Verb: to love, to have compassion for, to respect, to show affection to
• Modifier: loving, compassionate, respectful, affectionate

oliwa

• Etymology: Spanish oliva 'olive'.
• Noun: oil, fat, fuel, grease, olive

on

• Etymology: ona without the termination a.
• Noun: he, she, it, him, her
• Modifier: his, her

ona

• Etymology: Serbo-Croatian ona она ‘she’.
• Noun: they, theirs, them
• Modifier: their

onta

• Etymology: Spanish onda 'wave'.
• Noun: rhythm, beat, wave
• Pre-verb: (repeating action)
• Verb: blink

open

• Etymology: English open.
• Verb: to begin, to start, to open, to turn on

osa

• Etymology: Finnish osa 'part, piece, component'.
• Noun: part, piece, particle, element, component, subdivision, segment

ositen

• Etymology: Esperanto okcidente 'west'.
• Noun: west
• Modifier: west

pajan

• Etymology: Tagalog bayan 'town'.
• Noun: city, town, village, municipality
• Modifier: urban

pakala

• Etymology: Tok Pisin bagarap ‘accident’, ultimately from English bugger up.
• Noun: blunder, accident, mistake, destruction, damage, breaking
• Verb: to break, to botch, to ruin, to hurt, to injure, to damage, to spoil, to fall apart, to curse
• Modifier: botched, broken, damaged, harmed, messed up
• Particle: curse

pake

• Etymology: English block.
• Noun: stop, halt
• Verb: to stop, to block the way
• Modifier: stopped

palanta

• Etymology: Lithuanian valanda 'hour'.
• Noun: hour, o'clock

pali

• Etymology: Esperanto fari ‘do, make’, ultimately from Italian fare & French faire.
• Noun: activity, work, deed, project
• Verb: to do, to take action on, to work on, to build, to make, to prepare, to create, to act, to function
• Modifier: active, work-related, operating, working

palisa

• Etymology: Serbo-Croatian palica палица ‘bat, rod, cane’.
• Noun: long hard thing, branch, rod, stick
• Modifier: straight

pan

• Etymology: Romance pan ‘bread’ & Japanese パン pan, ultimately from Portuguese pão.
• Noun: cereal, grain, bread, pasta

pana

• Etymology: Finnish panna ‘put, set, place’ or Swahili pana ‘give to each other’.
• Noun: giving, transfer, gift
• Pre-verb: to cause
• Verb: to give, to send, to emit, to provide, to put, to release

pasila

• Etymology: French facile ‘easy’.
• Noun: simplicity
• Verb: to simplify
• Modifier: easy, simple

pata

• Etymology: Russian брат brat 'brother'.
• Noun: brother, sister, sibling

pesoni

• Etymology: Esperanto bezoni 'need, require'.
• Noun: need
• Pre-verb: must, should, to need to
• Verb: to need, to require
• Modifier: necessary

peta

• Etymology: Esperanto verda ‘green’.
• Noun: nature
• Verb: to remove dirt
• Modifier: green, clean, not contaminated, decent, appropriate, natural, ecofriendly

pi

• Etymology: Tok Pisin bilong ‘of’, ultimately from English belong.
• Particle: used to divide a second noun group that describes a first noun group

pilin

• Etymology: Tok Pisin pilim ‘feel’, from pil (from English feel) + -im ‘(transitive suffix)’ (from English him, ’em).
• Noun: heart (physical or emotional), feeling (an emotion, a direct experience)
• Verb: to feel, to think (a thought)

pimeja

• Etymology: Finnish pimeä ‘dark’.
• Noun: darkness, shadows
• Verb: to darken
• Modifier: black, dark, unlit

pini

• Etymology: French fini ‘finished, completed’ & Tok Pisin pinis ‘(perfective aspect)’, ultimately from English finish.
• Noun: past, end, tip
• Verb: to finish, to close, to end, to turn off
• Modifier: completed, ended, finished, past, ago

pipi

• Etymology: Acadian French bibitte ‘bug’.
• Noun: bug, insect, ant, spider

po

• Etymology: English four.
• Numeral: four

poka

• Etymology: Serbo-Croatian boka бока, genitive of bok бок ‘side, flank’.
• Noun: hip, side, vicinity
• Modifier: next to, nearby, around

poki

• Etymology: Tok Pisin bokis ‘box’, ultimately from English box.
• Noun: container, bag, bowl, box, cup, cupboard, drawer, vessel
• Verb: to contain, to lock
• Modifier: contained, locked

pona

• Etymology: Esperanto bona ‘good’.
• Noun: good, positivity
• Verb: to fix, to repair, to make good
• Modifier: good, positive, useful, friendly, peaceful, fixed

powe

• Etymology: French faux ‘false’.
• Noun: trick
• Verb: to pretend, to trick, to deceive
• Modifier: pretend, false, unreal

pu

• Etymology: Toki pona pu, ultimately from English book.
• Modifier: orthodox, conservative, conventional, official, canon

pume

• Etymology: French fumer 'smoke'.
• Noun: smoke, steam, tobacco
• Verb: to smoke, to steam

sama

• Etymology: Finnish sama ‘same’ (from PG *samaz ‘same, alike’) & Esperanto sama ‘same’ (from English same).
• Noun: each other, peer, fellow, equality
• Modifier: same, similar, equal, fellow

san

• Etymology: Mandarin 三 sān 'three'.
• Numeral: three

sanke

• Etymology: Italian sangue 'blood'.
• Noun: blood, bodily fluid, sap
• Verb: to bleed

sano

• Etymology: Nepali सानो sānō 'small, little, inferior'.
• Verb: to shorten, to shrink
• Modifier: little, small, short

se

• Etymology: shona se 'as'.
• Preposition: as, like

sekunte

• Etymology: German Sekunde, 'second'.
• Noun: second

seli

• Etymology: Georgian ცხელი cxeli ‘hot’.
• Noun: fire, heat, cooking element, chemical reaction, heat source, warmth
• Verb: to heat, to warm up, to cook
• Modifier: hot, warm, cooked

selo

• Etymology: Esperanto ŝelo ‘skin, peel’, ultimately from German Schale ‘peel, husk, shell’.
• Noun: outer form, outer layer, bark, peel, shell, skin, leather, boundary, touch
• Verb: to touch

seme

• Etymology: Mandarin 什麼 shénme ‘what, something’.
• Particle: what? which?

sewi

• Etymology: Georgian ზევით zevit ‘upwards’.
• Noun: area above, highest part, top, something elevated, sky, heaven
• Verb: to raise, to hoist
• Modifier: high, up, above, top, over, superior, elevated, formal, awe-inspiring, divine, sacred, religious, supernatural

si

• Etymology: sina without the termination na.
• Noun: you (singular)
• Modifier: your (singular)

sijelo

• Etymology: Serbo-Croatian tijelo тијело ‘body’.
• Noun: body (of person or animal), torso, physical state

sike

• Etymology: English circle.
• Noun: ball, circle, cycle, sphere, round or circular thing
• Verb: to rotate
• Modifier: round, circular, cyclical

sin

• Etymology: Mandarin 新 xīn ‘new, fresh’.
• Verb: to renew, to renovate, to freshen
• Modifier: new, fresh, additional, another, extra, more

sina

• Etymology: Finnish sinä ‘you’.
• Noun: you (plural)
• Modifier: your (plural)

sinko

• Etymology: Bulgarian синко sinko 'son'.
• Noun: son, daughter

sinpin

• Etymology: Cantonese 前邊 tsin bin ‘in front’.
• Noun: face, front, wall
• Modifier: foremost, front

sitelen

• Etymology: Dutch schilderen ‘paint’.
• Noun: image, picture, representation, symbol, mark, writing
• Verb: to write, to draw
• Modifier: written, drawn

siten

• Etymology: Dutch zitten 'to sit'.
• Noun: sit, chair, seat
• Verb: to sit

soko

• Etymology: Georgian სოკო sok’o ‘mushroom”.
• Noun: fungus, fungi

sona

• Etymology: Georgian ცოდნა codna ‘knowledge’.
• Noun: knowledge, wisdom, intelligence, understanding, science
• Pre-verb: to know how to
• Verb: to know, to be skilled in, to be wise about, to have information on, to understand

soto

• Etymology: Swahili shoto ‘left side’.
• Noun: the left side
• Modifier: left (directional)

soweli

• Etymology: Georgian ცხოველი cxoveli ‘beastly animal, lively, passionate’.
• Noun: animal, beast, land mammal

suli

• Etymology: Finnish suuri ‘big, large, great’.
• Modifier: big, heavy, large

suno

• Etymology: Esperanto suno ‘sun’.
• Noun: sun, light, brightness, glow, radiance, shine, light source
• Verb: to light, to glow, to shine
• Modifier: light, bright

supa

• Etymology: Esperanto surfaco ‘surface’, ultimately from French & English surface.
• Noun: horizontal surface, thing to put or rest something on, floor
• Verb: to lie (down)

supi

• Etymology: Ukrainian зуби zuby 'teeth'.
• Noun: tooth, bite
• Verb: to bite

sute

• Etymology: Esperanto sude 'south'.
• Noun: south
• Modifier: south

suwi

• Etymology: Tok Pisin suwi, ultimately from English sweet.
• Noun: candy, sweet food
• Verb: to sweeten
• Modifier: sweet, fragrant, cute, innocent, adorable

talika

• Etymology: Bengali তালিকা talika 'list, chart, table'.
• Noun: list, series

talili

• Etymology: Tagalog daliri 'finger, toe, mentioning things one by one'.
• Noun: finger, toe, count
• Verb: to count

tan

• Etymology: Cantonese 從 tsung ‘from’.
• Preposition: by, from, because of, since

tana

• Etymology: Swahili dhana 'concept'.
• Noun: concept, believe, thought, metaphor

tanse

• Etymology: French danse 'dance'.
• Noun: dance, jump
• Verb: to dance, to jump

taso

• Etymology: Tok Pisin tasol ‘just, only, but, however’, ultimately from English that’s all.
• Modifier: only, sole
• Particle: but, however

tawa

• Etymology: English towards.
• Noun: movement
• Pre-verb: to be going to
• Verb: to move, to walk, to travel, to leave, to displace
• Modifier: moving, mobile

te

• Etymology: Mandarin chinese 的 de, relative clause marker.
• Particle: relative clause marker

telo

• Etymology: Acadian French de l’eau ‘(some) water’.
• Noun: water, liquid, juice, sauce, fluid, wet substance, beverages
• Verb: to water, to wash

ten

• Etymology: English ten.
• Numeral: ten

tenpo

• Etymology: Esperanto tempo ‘time’, ultimately from Latin tempus.
• Noun: time, duration, moment, occasion, period, situation

tima

• Etymology: Thai ที่มา thī̀mā 'source, origin, provenance'.
• Noun: origin, cause, source, root, spring

titi

• Etymology: swahili titi 'teat'.
• Noun: chest, breast, teat, nipple

tiwata

• Etymology: Samoan tioata 'glass'.
• Noun: glass, cup, china
• Modifier: transparent

toki

• Etymology: Tok Pisin tok, ultimately from English talk.
• Noun: language, talking, speech, communication
• Verb: to communicate, to say, to speak, to talk, to chat, to use language
• Modifier: verbal

tolu

• Etymology: Estonian toru 'pipe'.
• Noun: pipe, tube

tomo

• Etymology: Esperanto domo ‘house’, ultimately from Polish dom, Latin domus, Ancient Greek δόμος.
• Noun: building, home, house
• Verb: to tame, to domesticate
• Modifier: domestic, household

tonsi

• Etymology: Mandarin 同志 tóngzhì ‘comrade (same will/purpose); LGBT+’.
• Modifier: trans, gender-non-conforming, non-binary

tu

• Etymology: English two & Esperanto du.
• Noun: duo, pair
• Verb: to double
• Numeral: two

tuntin

• Etymology: Arabic تمطر tumtir 'rain'.
• Noun: rain, hail, shower
• Verb: to rain, to hail

ulokan

• Etymology: Tamil உலோகம் ulōkam 'metal'.
• Noun: metal, hardness
• Modifier: hard, metallic

ulun

• Etymology: Basque urrun 'far, distant, apart'.
• Noun: that
• Modifier: that, far, distant, apart, there, at that time

umami

• Etymology: Japanese うま味 umami 'umami'.
• Noun: meat, muscle
• Modifier: umami (flavor)

umi

• Etymology: Japanese 海 umi 'ocean'.
• Noun: ocean, sea, lake
• Modifier: oceanic, maritime

umojo

• Etymology: Chichewa umoyo 'health'.
• Noun: health, medicine
• Modifier: healthy, medicinal, medical

unpa

• Etymology: onomatopoeia.
• Noun: sex, sexuality
• Verb: to have sexual relations
• Modifier: erotic, sexual

uta

• Etymology: Serbo-Croatian уста usta ‘mouth’.
• Noun: mouth, lips, oral cavity, jaw
• Verb: to kiss
• Modifier: oral

utala

• Etymology: Serbo-Croatian ударати udarati ‘strike, hit, hurt’.
• Noun: battle, challenge, conflict, disharmony, competition, fight, war, attack, blow, argument, physical or verbal violence
• Verb: to battle, to challenge, to compete against, to struggle against, to fight, to hit, to strike, to attack
• Modifier: violent, bellicose

wa

• Etymology: Hawaiian hua 'egg, seed'.
• Noun: egg, seed, pregnacy, semen

waleja

• Etymology: Quenya valdea ‘of moment, important’.
• Noun: context, topic, salience
• Verb: to pertain to, to be relevant to
• Modifier: pertinent, topical

walo

• Etymology: Finnish valko- ‘white’.
• Modifier: white, whitish, light-coloured, pale

wan

• Etymology: English one.
• Verb: to make one, to unite
• Modifier: unique, united
• Numeral: one

waso

• Etymology: French oiseau ‘bird’.
• Noun: bird, flying creature, winged animal
• Verb: to fly

wawa

• Etymology: Finnish vahva ‘strong, powerful, thick’.
• Noun: energy, strength, power
• Verb: to strengthen, to energize, to empower
• Modifier: strong, powerful, confident, sure, energetic, intense, fierce

wawasa

• Etymology: Chichewa (wo)wawasa 'sour'.
• Noun: acid, vinegar
• Modifier: sour

weka

• Etymology: Dutch weg ‘away, gone’.
• Noun: absence
• Verb: to throw away, to remove, to get rid of
• Modifier: absent, away, ignored, missing

wetu

• Etymology: Māori whetū ‘star’.
• Noun: star, celestial body

wiki

• Etymology: Hawaiian wikiwiki 'fast'.
• Modifier: fast, quick, quickly

wile

• Etymology: Dutch willen ‘want, desire'.
• Noun: desire, will
• Pre-verb: to want to, to wish to, to desire to
• Verb: to want, to wish, to desire

woka

• Etymology: Malagasy vovoka 'dust'.
• Noun: powder, dust, sand