Words that come from Proto-Oceanic “tabu”

86 words across 37 languages descend from Proto-Oceanic tabu — including taboo, tabu, nontaboo, tabooless, tapu, tabu, tapu, tabu.

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English (18)

Swedish (6)

Hungarian (6)

Finnish (4)

German (4)

Danish (3)

Hawaiian (3)

Korean (3)

Dutch (3)

Romanian (3)

Tongan (2)

Samoan (2)

Latin (2)

Fijian (2)

Kazakh (2)

Tokelauan (2)

Proto-Polynesian (1)

Lithuanian (1)

Slovak (1)

Tahitian (1)

Japanese (1)

Icelandic (1)

Russian (1)

Armenian (1)

Catalan (1)

Rapa Nui (1)

Spanish (1)

Portuguese (1)

Serbo-Croatian (1)

Polish (1)

French (1)

Esperanto (1)

Estonian (1)

Indonesian (1)

Norwegian Bokmål (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Turkish (1)