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.
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kapu
prohibited, forbidden, sacred, consecrated, or set apart
OPEN NODE 559 ↗DESCENDS FROM→
PARENT / EARLIER FORM / reconstructedProto-Oceanic · Proto-Oceanic reconstruction · ritual restriction*tampu
sacred, forbidden; under ritual restriction
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Sacred, prohibited, consecrated, and set-apart senses continue across the family.
No separate chronology note is attached beyond the endpoint date ranges.
Robert A. Blust · POLLEX editors
probable — POLLEX supplies the lexical comparison; Blust documents the Hawaiian *t to k sound change and its historical complexity.
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TAPU [OC] — Prohibited, under ritual restriction, tabooHawaiian kapu reflex under OC.TAPU; POC *tampu note
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Directly compares Hawaiian kapu with the Oceanic reconstruction.
Kapu — Nā Puke Wehewehe ʻŌlelo HawaiʻiKapu entries from Andrews 1836 and 1865
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Documents the attested Hawaiian form and semantic field.
*t to k: An Austronesian Sound Change Revisitedpp. 365–410 — Hawaiian *t to k
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Documents the sound change and its historical and dialectal complexity.
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