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scholarly articleblust-2004-t-to-k

*t to k: An Austronesian Sound Change Revisited

AUTHOR / EDITOR
Robert A. Blust
YEAR
2004
PUBLISHER
Oceanic Linguistics · University of Hawaiʻi Press
DOI
10.1353/ol.2005.0001
SOURCE TYPE
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The k in kapu is a fossilized sound change.

Hawaiian kapu and Māori tapu are not misspellings of one another: Hawaiian regularly changed inherited *t toward k while preserving the sacred and prohibited semantic field.

*tampu

*tampu → kapu

pp. 365–410 — Hawaiian *t to k

Explains the visible consonant difference as historical sound change.

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EDGE 518supportsprobable

kapu → *tampu

Hawaiian → Proto-Oceanic · inheritance

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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.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR
Robert A. Blust · POLLEX editors
pp. 365–410 — Hawaiian *t to k

Documents the sound change and its historical and dialectal complexity.

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