Toki Pona · 5 October 2026
A word a day week
kasi
KA-si · /ˈkasi/ · content word
- plant
- vegetation
- herb
- leaf
Finnish kasvi sheds one consonant and becomes a broad Toki Pona category for growing green things and their plant-like products.
Borrowed luggage
Where it came from
Finnishkasvi
Toki Ponakasi
Kasi is borrowed from Finnish kasvi, ‘plant’, with the consonant cluster simplified.
- Finnish kasvi
Tiny sentence
kasi li laso.
plant PRED blue.green
“The plant is green.”
Laso covers a colour region that includes both green and blue; the plant makes the intended reading unsurprising.
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Sources and cautions
Borrowed sounds are simplified, while the meaning is organised by Toki Pona’s own deliberately broad categories.