HOW WORDS MOVE.
HOW MEANINGS MUTATE.

POLLEX compares Tongan tapu with Proto-Oceanic *tampu; intermediate Polynesian developments are not over-specified here.

The sacred, prohibited, and ritual-restriction field remains continuous across the comparison.

The broad Inuit qayaq form is compared with Proto-Eskimo *qan-yaq; the notation is source-dependent and does not identify one modern donor variety.

The kayak or skin-boat referent remains central across the comparison.

Portuguese manga closely reflects Malayalam māṅṅa; the nasal and final vowel were accommodated in Portuguese spelling.

The mango-fruit referent remained stable.

English moose reflects a closely matching Eastern Algonquian animal name such as moos or mos.

The animal referent remained stable.

The noun yoğurt is analyzed in relation to the verbal base yogur- or modern yoğur-.

A process word for kneading or working a mixture is proposed as the morphological base of the food noun.

Latin candēre is derived from a zero-grade stative formation of reconstructed *(s)kend-.

Shining, gleaming, and whiteness retain the reconstructed brightness core.

English intellect continues a medieval French or directly Latin learned form; this dossier displays the published Old French route.

Perception and understanding become the modern capacity for knowing and reasoning.

Latin cōnscīre combines assimilated com- with scīre; the prefix is analyzed as with/together or as intensive.

Knowing becomes mutual, shared, thorough, or self-aware knowledge, with moral guilt among its attested applications.

Merriam-Webster analyzes omnisciēns as a back-formation from Medieval Latin omniscientia.

The abstract state of all-knowledge supplies an adjective meaning all-knowing.

English prescient is compatible with French transmission and direct learned borrowing from Latin; the displayed French form preserves the mediated route.

Foreknowledge remains central while ordinary usage often relaxes toward unusually accurate foresight.

English legislation borrows French législation with learned English stress and pronunciation.

The making of laws and the resulting body of laws remain central while legislative-business senses develop.

Old Norse lag and lög reflect a reconstructed Germanic *lagam formation in the lay-family.

A layer, laying, or ordered placement supplies the legal sense “what is laid down.”

Proto-Germanic *lagam reflects an o-grade formation in the PIE *legh- “lie, lay” family.

The concrete act of laying becomes an established order and law.

Latin movēre is assigned to the PIE movement root *meue- in the reviewed source.

Physical pushing and movement underlie the later agitation and feeling family.

Old English sealt regularly continues reconstructed Proto-Germanic *saltom.

The material salt sense remains stable across Germanic.

Proto-Germanic *saltom belongs to the Indo-European salt family represented as *séh₂l- in the existing dossier and *sal- in other references.

The material salt meaning remains stable; no payment sense exists at the reconstructed stage.

Middle English forms adapt Old French algorisme / augorisme with variable vowels, consonants, and endings.

The art of reckoning with Hindu-Arabic numerals remains central.

Old French algorisme / augorisme adapts Medieval Latin algorismus with Romance vowel and ending changes.

The learned arithmetic term enters vernacular calculation vocabulary.

Old English lecgan continues reconstructed Proto-Germanic *lagojanan with West Germanic sound development.

To cause something to lie yields the transitive verb to lay or set down.

Proto-Germanic *lagojanan is a causative formation in the PIE *legh- lie-and-lay family.

A state of lying supplies a causative act of putting or setting down.

Māori tapu preserves the t and vowels of the wider Oceanic comparison; intermediate subgroup stages are not invented.

Sacredness, prohibition, restriction, and being set apart remain central.

Hawaiian kapu reflects the characteristic Hawaiian development of earlier *t to k after the older k-space changed; the rest of the form remains visibly close.

Sacred, prohibited, consecrated, and set-apart senses continue across the family.

Greenlandic qajaq continues the independently reconstructed Proto-Eskimo kayak formation; exact intermediate dialect stages are not over-specified.

The watercraft referent remains central.

Portuguese chá adapts a Cantonese cha-type form with Portuguese spelling and /ʃ/ realization; Infopédia instead labels the source Mandarin.

The meaning remains tea, later extending regularly to the plant, leaves, infusion, and social uses.