Translation
tea
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Word origin
From the Min Nan Chinese pronunciation te, shipped to Europe by Dutch sea traders as thee. Languages that bought their tea overland from Mandarin-speaking regions got cha instead, which is why Russian and Hindi say chai.
- Origin
- Chinese
- Root
- te
- English cognates
- tea
Examples
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Would you like to drink tea with me?
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She drinks warm tea every morning.
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After the meal we drank sweet tea.
Esperanto sits firmly on the sea-trade side of the world's great tea split: belongs with tea, thee and te, against the overland caravan family of chai and cha. A teapot is a tekru膲o, a cup of tea is with because you are measuring a quantity, and the herbal kind is still even when no tea leaf was harmed in making it, exactly as in English.
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This word is taught in chapter 2, lesson 2: teo, morti, dio and 11 more words.