SC - Regarding TEA
Gedney, Jeff
Gedney at executone.com
Wed Jan 7 07:01:39 PST 1998
> > 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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