The story
- Latin · derived frombonus
- Esperanto · derived frombona“good”
- English · derived fromtalk
- Tok Pisin · derived fromtok
- tok · borrowed fromi pona
- English todayToki Pona
From Toki Pona toki pona (literally “good language”), formed from toki (“language”) (from Tok Pisin tok, from English talk) + pona (“good”) (from Esperanto bona (“good”), ultimately from Latin bonus).
Words from the same roots
Latinbonus all →
bonusbonniebonaboonbonnyboniform
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.