List of Toki Pona Extended Vocabulary

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front a	back (interjection) ah, oh, ha, eh, um, oy (particle) (placed after something for emphasis or emotion)

front ali	back (pronounciation variant of ale)

front apeja	back guilt, shame, shun, stigma, disgrace; to accuse to single out, to expose, to dishonor, to embarrass

front epiku	back epic, cool, awesome, amazing

front isipin	back to think, brainstorm, rationalize, conclude, ponder

front jami	back yummy; eliciting or simulating a positive sensory experience

front jasima	back reflect, echo; mirror, duplicate

front jonke	back hjönk, goose sound, goose

front kamalawala	back anarchy, uprising, revolt, rebellion

front kapesi	back brown, gray, beige

front kijetesantakalu	back raccoon, kinkajou; any procyonid; any musteloid

front kiki	back spiky, sharp; angle, point; triangular

front kokosila	back to speak a non-Toki Pona language in an environment where Toki Pona is more appropriate

front konwe	back animacy, life, autonomy; autonomous being, living thing, organism; alive, animate, dynamic; to anima...

front ku	back interacting with the book Toki Pona Dictionary (2021) by Sonja Lang

front kulijo	back (interjection) (casually express appreciation or acknowledgement); cool, fine, okay

front lanpan	back take, seize, steal

front leko	back square, cube, block, blocky object e.g. bricks, stairs

front linluwi	back bonded things which are stronger through their bonds e.g. network, internet, connection; weave, brai...

front majuna	back old, aged, ancient

front melome	back lesbian, sapphic, WLW

front meso	back midpoint, medium, mediocre; neither one not the other, neither fully is nor isn't

front mijomi	back gay, achillean, MLM

front misa	back glires or eulipotyphla; rat, mouse, squirrel, rabbit, rodent; (suli) capybara

front misikeke	back medical item or practice e.g. prescriptions, medication, exercise, bandages, therapy

front monsuta	back fear, nervousness, dread; scary, frightening; scary thing e.g. monster, threat, danger

front mulapisu	back pizza

front n	back (interjection) hm, uh, mm, er, umm, (indicate thinking or pause)

front nimisin	back any non-pu word; any new word; any joke word

front nja	back meow, cat sound

front ojuta	back adaptation of the English meme "ligma", (literally) "o uta" (lick)

front oke	back (acknowledgement or acceptance)

front omekapo	back goodbye, farewell, see you later, (literally) "o moku e kala pona" (eat a good fish)

front owe	back totalitarian, Orwellian; of or relating to Big Brother from the book Nineteen Eighty-Four

front pake	back stop, cease, halt; to block the way, to interrupt; to prevent

front penpo	back (equivalent to "(pi) toki pona taso")

front pika	back electric, electronic, conductive, mechanical, online; electricity, lightning, thunder, network

front po	back (number) four

front powe	back unreal, false, untrue; pretend; deceive, trick

front puwa	back fluffy, soft, squishy (something that can be compressed and will try to go back to its original shap...

front san	back (number) three

front soko	back mushroom, fungus, lichen

front soto	back left, left side, port side

front su	back interacting with aa book from the illustrated story book series that began with The Wonderful Wizard...

front sutopatikuna	back platypus

front taki	back sticky, magnetic; bond, attract, attach, clip

front te	back (particle) (opens a quote)

front teje	back right, right side, starboard

front to	back (particle) (closes a quote)

front tonsi	back non-binary, gender nonconforming, genderqueer, transgender

front unu	back purple, violet

front usawi	back magic, sorcery; enchant; magical, supernatural, occult, incomrehensible

front wa	back (interjection) (indicating awe or amazement)

front wasoweli	back animal with qualities of both waso and sowelimm

front wekama	back leave and come back, be temporarily absent with the expectation of returning

front wuwojiti	back to use one or more of the "banned" syllables wu, wo, ji, or ti; to break toki pona phonotactics

front yupekosi	back to behave like George Lucas and revise your old creative works and actually make them worse

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