Which Polynesian word means forbidden?
Taboo use of the term "taboo" for "any thing is forbidden to be eaten, or made use of". He wrote: The term was translated to him as "consecrated, inviolable, forbidden, unclean or cursed." "Tabu" itself has been derived from alleged Tongan morphemes "ta" ("mark") and "bu" ("especially"), but this may be a folk etymology (Tongan does not actually have a phoneme /b/), and "tapu" is usually treated as a unitary, non-compound word inherited from Proto-Polynesian *"tapu", in turn inherited from Proto-Oceanic *"tabu", with the reconstructed meaning "sacred, forbidden." In its current use on Tonga, the word "tapu" means "sacred" or "holy",
Ghosts in Polynesian culture among his best . Ghosts in Polynesian culture There was widespread belief in ghosts in Polynesian culture, some of which persists today. After death, a person's ghost would normally travel to the sky world or the underworld, but some could stay on earth. In many Polynesian legends, ghosts were often involved in the affairs of the living. Ghosts might also cause sickness or even invade the body of ordinary people, to be driven out through strong medicines. In the reconstructed Proto-Polynesian language, the word "*qaitu" refers to a ghost, the spirit of a dead person, while the word "*tupuqa" has