Toki Pona · 31 August 2026
A word a day week
moku
MO-ku · /ˈmoku/ · content word
- food
- to eat
- to drink
- to consume
A Japanese munching sound becomes Toki Pona’s general-purpose word for food and consumption—including drinking.
Borrowed luggage
Where it came from
Japaneseもぐもぐ mogu mogu
Toki Ponamoku
Moku is associated with Japanese mogu mogu, an expressive form for chewing or munching, simplified into Toki Pona phonology.
- Japanese もぐもぐ mogu mogu
Tiny sentence
mi moku e kili.
I consume OBJ fruit
“I eat fruit.”
After mi, no li is used. The particle e marks the direct object kili.
Receipts
Sources and cautions
Expressive source forms do not map like formal dictionary equations. The modern Toki Pona word has a stable, broader grammatical life of its own.