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*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
- scholarly article
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
CONTRARIAN TRUTH CLAIMS
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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 → kapu
pp. 365–410 — Hawaiian *t to kExplains the visible consonant difference as historical sound change.
SCHOLARLY DISAGREEMENT
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Is kapu merely a misspelling of tapu?
No. Hawaiian kapu reflects a documented historical *t to k development; POLLEX lists it as the Hawaiian reflex of the same Oceanic family.
pp. 365–410 — Hawaiian *t to kDocuments the historical sound change.
CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP CLAIMS
EDGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
kapu → *tampu
Hawaiian → Proto-Oceanic · inheritance
- 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.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Robert A. Blust · POLLEX editors
pp. 365–410 — Hawaiian *t to kDocuments the sound change and its historical and dialectal complexity.
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