PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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No. The Tongan reflexes and wider Oceanic reconstruction carry a semantic field that includes prohibited, under ritual restriction, sacred, holy, and consecrated.
/təˈbuː/ · noun · adjective · verb
An English borrowing recorded in 1777 from Tongan tabu, now tapu, within an Oceanic family whose reconstructed form joins ritual restriction with sacredness.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Documents prohibited, ritual, sacred, and consecrated senses.
OC.TAPU description and Tongan reflexesEstablishes the direct Tongan source.
Word History — Tongan tabuThe graph and truth ledger retain sacredness and prohibition together instead of back-projecting only the modern casual English sense.