Contionary:Toki Pona/selo

Toki Pona

File:Selo - sitelen pona in Sonja Lang's handwriting.svg

selo in sitelen pona

Etymology

Template:Etymon From Esperanto ŝelo (“skin”). Distantly related to tok ("sitelen") → [[Contionary:{{{3}}}|{{{3}}}]] ("{{{4}}}").

Noun

Toki Pona/selo

1. the outside, surface, outer layer or boundary (e.g. skin, bark, peel, shell)
   1. (by extension) shape, form
      • 2014 May 25, Sonja Lang, “Preface”, in Toki Pona: The Language of Good, page 7:

        mi wile pana e selo pini pi toki pona.

        I hope to present the language [Toki Pona] in its completed form.

References

• Template:R:Toki Pona: The Language of Good

Skin