The story
- Mandarin · derived from新“new, fresh”
- Finnish · derived fromnimi
- tok · borrowed fromnimi sin
- English todaynimisin
From Toki Pona nimi sin (literally “new word”), formed from nimi (“word”) (from Finnish nimi) + sin (“new”) (from Mandarin 新 (xīn, “new, fresh”)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.