Word Origin Summary

茶 is attested in Hokkien. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• té

  Spanish · derived from

• teo

  IDO · borrowed from

• dééh

  Jicarilla · borrowed from

• thea

  Latin · derived from

• dééh

  Navajo · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root