NODE / 0327boundaryBeyond secure reconstruction
UNKNOWN
No deeper ancestor is promoted beyond the reviewed comparative reconstruction.
- DATE
- before Proto-Oceanic *tampu
- SENSE
- taboo deep boundary
- FAMILY
- unclassified
- CANONICAL KEY
- boundary:54:4
The boundary marks the end of the reviewed evidence path, not a claim that future comparative work is impossible.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
*THE TRAIL ENDS HERE.No reviewed parent edge extends beyond this canonical node.
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
03TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE
EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE
This is the complete downstream closure currently supported by the canonical graph. Every displayed step is a real reviewed edge with its own sound claim, meaning claim, scholar, confidence, and citations.
- UNIQUE DESCENDANT NODES
- 5
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 5
- DEEPEST PATH
- 3
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 3
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01knowledge boundaryboundary
- SOUND
- No deeper form is promoted beyond the Proto-Oceanic reconstruction in the reviewed comparative entry.
- MEANING
- The dossier reaches the current reviewed reconstruction and stops.
SET-U editorial boundary · POLLEX editors1 CITATIONEDGE 314 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 023 EDGES
STEP 02inheritanceprobable
- SOUND
- POLLEX compares Tongan tapu with Proto-Oceanic *tampu; intermediate Polynesian developments are not over-specified here.
- MEANING
- The sacred, prohibited, and ritual-restriction field remains continuous across the comparison.
STEP 02inheritanceprobable
- SOUND
- Māori tapu preserves the t and vowels of the wider Oceanic comparison; intermediate subgroup stages are not invented.
- MEANING
- Sacredness, prohibition, restriction, and being set apart remain central.
POLLEX editors · John C. Moorfield2 CITATIONSEDGE 516 ↗ STEP 02inheritanceprobable
- SOUND
- 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.
- MEANING
- Sacred, prohibited, consecrated, and set-apart senses continue across the family.
Robert A. Blust · POLLEX editors3 CITATIONSEDGE 518 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 031 EDGE
STEP 03borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Tongan tabu was adapted to the English spelling taboo and English phonology.
- MEANING
- A Polynesian field joining sacredness and prohibition became an English noun, adjective, and verb for prohibited things and acts.
Merriam-Webster Editors · POLLEX editors2 CITATIONSEDGE 312 ↗ “Every” means every descendant in the reviewed SET-U graph. It does not convert missing scholarship or missing ingestion into a claim of historical completeness. The coverage ledger remains the honest denominator.
04RECORDED EVIDENCE
ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE
NO RECORDED WITNESS ATTACHED.The reviewed graph does not yet attach a source-reported or directly inspected witness to this canonical form.
05EDITORIAL REUSE
WORD DOSSIERS USING THIS NODE