Appendix:Toki Pona/misikeke

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Toki Pona[edit]

misikeke in sitelen pona

Etymology[edit]

From Ojibwe mashkiki (medicine, drug).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈmisikeke/
  • (file)

Noun[edit]

misikeke

  1. medication, medicine
    • 2021 October 6, lon Jawin, “pali len pi sitelen sitelen pi nimi ku suli [The secret design of the sitelen sitelen of nimi ku suli.]”, in lipu tenpo[1], nanpa toki, page 4:
      kasi li lon monsi palisa li lon monsi poki ko. ijo ni li kepeken pali e misikeke.
      A plant is below the rod, and on the bottom of the bowl of powder. This object is used to make medicine.
    1. pill, vaccine

Verb[edit]

misikeke

  1. to cure
    Synonym: pona

Adjective[edit]

misikeke

  1. medical, clinical

Usage notes[edit]

  • This word was created by Sonja Lang before the publication of Sonja Lang's book Toki Pona: The Language of Good (2014) and not included in it. 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 60% of respondents in a poll from August 2023.