SC - Regarding TEA

[Gedney, Jeff]

> > We surmised that the term "tea" came from
> >  China, and we have adapted it to cover several types of beverage,
> when in
> >  fact it originally perhaps referred only to the Camelia leaf tea.
> Do you
> >  happen to have information which might confirm or deny these
> assumptions?
> >  Information would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> "Tea" is a corruption of the Chinese word "Cha" which as you correctly
> sumised
> refers "specifically to the leaves of the Camelia plant". In one
> dilect this
> occurs as "Tay" and the English apparently picked up on it.
> 
> 
I thought that the word TEA came from "Ti" which is from one of the
"non-Han" 
Asian dialects. 
I'll look it up...

Brandu


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