diff --git a/tools/cldr-code/src/main/java/org/unicode/cldr/tool/CLDRModify.java b/tools/cldr-code/src/main/java/org/unicode/cldr/tool/CLDRModify.java
index 9514b2fcbb1..2fd3371b102 100644
--- a/tools/cldr-code/src/main/java/org/unicode/cldr/tool/CLDRModify.java
+++ b/tools/cldr-code/src/main/java/org/unicode/cldr/tool/CLDRModify.java
@@ -2118,7 +2118,8 @@ private void rememberKeywordPaths(String xpath) {
                             String type = parts.getAttributeValue(2, "type");
                             if (type == null) { // not type="tts"
                                 String cp = parts.getAttributeValue(2, "cp");
-                                keywordPaths.put(cp, xpath);
+                                keywordPaths.put(
+                                        cp, fullpath /* not xpath; preserve status="..." */);
                             }
                         }
                     }