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PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 217

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 02regionalNO SINGLE PIN

Tongan tabu or tapu

Tonga

taboo DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

The English route is traced to Tongan, where historical and modern forms carry prohibited and sacred senses.

COORDINATES STORED
NO
HONEST TO PLOT
NO
PLACEMENT MODE
regional
TIME PRECISION
unresolved
NUMERIC TIME BOUND
WITHHELD
CLAIM CITATIONS
2
THE TEMPORAL CLAIM

NO YEAR HAS BEEN INVENTED.

The reviewed sources do not warrant one numeric first-use date for the Tongan form.

DIRECT STAGE-LEVEL PROVENANCE

AUDIT THE ROUTE CLAIM.

Every source below identifies its exact stance, locator, and evidentiary contribution.

  1. supports

    Taboo — Word History

    Identifies the Tongan source of English taboo.

    Word History — Tongan tabuAUDIT SOURCE ↗
  2. supports

    TAPU [OC] — Prohibited, under ritual restriction, taboo

    Documents the Tongan forms and semantic field.

    Tongan reflexes under OC.TAPUAUDIT SOURCE ↗