{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "tatau-word",
 "type": "term",
 "names": {
  "name": "tatau",
  "local": "tatau",
  "local_lang": "Samoan",
  "said": "tatau"
 },
 "etymology": {
  "root": "The Polynesian word English borrowed. Cook's crew wrote it down in 1769 and it displaced every English word for the practice.",
  "tier": "cited",
  "source": "s:wp-pe-a"
 },
 "region": [
  "oceania"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "means": "strike"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "The Polynesian word English borrowed. Cook's crew wrote it down in 1769 and it displaced every English word for the practice."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "คำภาษาโพลินีเซียที่อังกฤษยืมไป ลูกเรือของคุกจดไว้ในปี 1769"
 },
 "sources": [
  "s:wp-pe-a",
  "s:wp-james-cook"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:wp-pe-a"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "tags": [],
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "words",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "What the word means first",
   "as": "Strike."
  }
 ]
}