taboo

(Anglų k.)

Dažnis

C2
Tariamas kaip (IPA)
/təˈbuː/
Etimologija (Anglų k.)

Borrowed from Tongan tapu (“prohibited, sacred”), from Proto-Polynesian *tapu, from Proto-Oceanic *tabu, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *tambu. Doublet of kapu. First attested in c. 1777. The p in the Tongan source was misheard as b.

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