Appendix:Toki Pona/lanpan

Glyph origin
The sitelen pona glyph represents a person (drawn with a circle for the head and a line for the body) seizing an object (a dot). Compare.

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to take, to seize, to steal, to catch, to receive

Usage notes

 * This word was created by the Toki Pona community after the publication of Sonja Lang's book Toki Pona: The Language of Good (2014). It has since been recognized as essential vocabulary (nimi ku suli) by Lang in her 2021 publication The Toki Pona Dictionary.


 * According to Linku, this word is classified as "common," being used by 58% of respondents in a poll from August 2023.