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apartEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
From Middle English apart, aparte, a-part, a part, from Anglo-Norman a part, from Latin ad partem (“to the side”).
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Mayhew–Skeat (1888)
1888; pinned HTML transcription updated October 28, 2024015
MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
adjective · noun · verbdossier summary
kapu
A Hawaiian word for what is prohibited, sacred, consecrated, or set apart, continuing the Oceanic tapu family through the characteristic Hawaiian *t to k sound change.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗nouncontrarian claim
science
Systematic knowledge today; inherited through French from Latin scientia, a much broader word for knowledge, awareness, and understanding.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗verb, adjectivecontrarian claim
select
To choose or mark out from a group, borrowed from Latin selectus and seligere, literally gathering apart.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗noun · adjective · verbhistorical form
taboo
An English borrowing recorded in 1777 from Tongan tabu, now tapu, within an Oceanic family whose reconstructed form joins ritual restriction with sacredness.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗stative · modifier · noundossier summary
tapu
A Māori word for what is sacred, prohibited, restricted, set apart, or under atua protection, inherited within the wider Oceanic *tampu family.
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ATTESTED / RECONSTRUCTED / BOUNDARY
HISTORICAL FORMS
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Latin / Indo-European
dī-/dis-
apart, asunder
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- Latin
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Hawaiian / Austronesian
kapu
prohibited, forbidden, sacred, consecrated, or set apart
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- Hawaiian record–today
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- 1
Latin / Indo-European
seligere
to select or choose apart
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- Latin antiquity
- MATCH
- gloss
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- 1
Present-Day English / Indo-European
taboo
a ritual or social prohibition; prohibited or set apart
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- 1777–today
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- gloss
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- 1
Māori / Austronesian
tapu
sacred, prohibited, restricted, set apart, or under atua protection
- DATE
- Māori record–today
- MATCH
- gloss
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- 1
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WHERE INTERPRETATION IS TESTED
CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 1
resolvedestablishedposition text
Does tapu mean only “forbidden”?
No. Te Aka defines a culturally specific field spanning sacredness, restriction, being set apart, prohibition, atua protection, and social or environmental responsibility.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 1
RANK 208GRADE A-contrarian claim
To select is to gather apart.
Latin seligere combines se- “apart” with legere “gather, select.” The same gathering verb sits behind lecture, lesson, legend, and collect.
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BOOKS / DICTIONARIES / ARTICLES / DATABASES
SOURCES
No reviewed record in this collection contains “apart.” Absence describes this graph, not all of linguistic scholarship.
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FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
ATTESTATION WITNESSES
No reviewed record in this collection contains “apart.” Absence describes this graph, not all of linguistic scholarship.
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