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ALL SOURCES ↗BIBLIOGRAPHIC IDENTITYte-aka-tapu
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institutional lexiconte-aka-tapu
Tapu — Te Aka Māori Dictionary
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- John C. Moorfield
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Te Aka Māori Dictionary · Te Murumāra Foundation
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- institutional lexicon
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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CONTRARIAN TRUTH CLAIMS
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RANK 145GRADE Asupports
English taboo did not come from Māori tapu.
Māori tapu and English taboo meet deeper in the Oceanic family. English borrowed the Tongan reflex; Māori independently preserves sacredness, prohibition, restriction, and atua protection.
*tampu
*tampu → tapu
Tapu definitions 1–4Secures the independent Māori form and semantic depth.
tapu dossier ↗truth record ↗85UNVEILING
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SCHOLARLY DISAGREEMENT
DISPUTE POSITIONS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
resolvedsupportsestablished
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.
Tapu definitions 1–4Documents the culturally specific Māori semantic field.
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CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP CLAIMS
EDGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
EDGE 516supportsprobable
tapu → *tampu
Māori → Proto-Oceanic · inheritance
- 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.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- POLLEX editors · John C. Moorfield
Tapu definitions 1–4Documents the attested Māori form and full semantic field.
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LEXICAL ATTESTATIONS
WITNESSES REPORTED BY THIS SOURCE
tapuSOURCE-REPORTED
tapu
Te Waka Maori o Niu Tirani example
OPEN WITNESS 130 ↗050
COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE
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GEOGRAPHIC AND TEMPORAL CLAIMS
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stage 2supports
Aotearoa New Zealand Māori record
Documents the living Māori field and dated example.
Tapu definition 4 and TWMNT 3/4/1872:58 · regional070
NON-GENEALOGICAL CONNECTIONS
HISTORICAL CONTEXT, KEPT SEPARATE
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WORD-FAMILY REUSE
DOSSIERS THAT DEPEND ON THIS SOURCE
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