profanity
- Québécois French: Church-related
- Norwegian: devil-relation
menstruation
mortology
- Dutch: death and diseases
- Chinese, Japanese, Korean: four
faunality (hunter’s taboo)
- Indo-European: bear from ursus
- Swedish: wolf as varg (criminal)
- Batek (Malaysia): tigers are respected and feared
- Portland, England: rabbits
naming taboos (appellity)
- Mongolia: unpleasant names
- Pitjantjatjara, Australia: names treated like body parts by grammar
- Austronesian: name change if you have same name as deceased
- Maasai: newly deceased are renamed
- Nguni and Sotho, South Africa: hlonipha, where cannot say names of husband and his family
second-person invectives
- Dutch: diseases, genitals
- French: genitals
- British: genitals
- Italian: male sexual inadequacy
- American: sexual actions
- German: anal and exrements
- Spanish: family relations
- Croatian: family relations, sexual actions
- Norwegian: devil/satan, hell
- Greek: physical handicaps
- Polish: not educated