Appendix:Toki Pona/soko

Toki Pona

Glyph origin

sitelen pona
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sitelen sitelen

• sitelen pona: A mushroom. The stem is variously drawn as a line, a rectangle, or a crossed line representing an annulus.

Etymology

From Georgian სოკო (soḳo, “mushroom”). Coined by jan inwin in 2019.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsoko/

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• Hyphenation: so‧ko
• Rhymes: -oko

Noun

soko

1. mushroom, fungus

   Synonym: kili

   • 2021, Sonja Lang, Toki Pona Dictionary, →ISBN:

     kijetesantakalu tonsi li lanpan ala lanpan e soko?

     Does the non-binary procyonid steal mushrooms?

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 65% of respondents in a poll from October 2024.