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Kapu — Nā Puke Wehewehe ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Lorrin Andrews et al.
- YEAR
- 1836
- PUBLISHER
- University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo · Ulukau
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
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Did Hawaiian kapu directly give English taboo?
No. English taboo is traced to Tongan tabu. Hawaiian kapu is a cognate reflex whose resemblance reveals family history, not the borrowing event.
Historical kapu entriesDocuments the Hawaiian word without claiming English descent.
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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
Kapu entries from Andrews 1836 and 1865Documents the attested Hawaiian form and semantic field.
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kapu
Andrews Hawaiian dictionary entry
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Hawaiian-language record
Documents the Hawaiian form and historical semantic field.
Andrews 1836 and 1865 kapu entries · regionalNON-GENEALOGICAL CONNECTIONS
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