The Polish word is "herbata"... Judging from the map, probably because they couldn't decide which word origin to go with.
If tea spread to your country by sea, you call it ‘tea’. If by land, you call it chai. (*This is because the ports of Fujian and Taiwan use the coastal pronunciation ‘te’, whereas Mandarin uses chá.)pic.twitter.com/HQsesNik9d
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Ah! From Latin Herba thea...
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Mind... blown!
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It’s odd to call “te” just a “coastal pronunciation”: it’s a word in a completely different Chinese variety
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Oh, for an edit button. ;)
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if it spreads to your country by starbucks, then you call it chai tea latte.
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Make sure to have with some queso cheese
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And a head of cabbage (Proto-Indo-European kaput -> Latin caput -> Old French caboce -> Old North French caboche, all meaning “head”)
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Mind = blown. From now on, I'll only say "a cabbage". It makes so much sense, since it's "cabeza" in Spanish and "cabeça" in Portuguese.
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I learned this from a called History of English Podcast, done by Kevin. If you liked this, you’ll probably love the rest of it!
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Very, very cool factoid!
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A factoid was actually meant to refer to something that is presented as fact, but not actually true...
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Wow. Could you also clarify for me the meaning of the word ‘pedant’?
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I used to be an editor. One of my colleagues got berated by a member of the writing department for basic corrections: "You're nothing but the Department of Pure Pedantry". Back came the reply: "Actually, it's the Department of Pure *and Applied* Pedantry, to you".
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Not sure... the Portuguese were the first to bring it by sea and call it chá. It was also a Portuguese born Queen (Catarina) who introduced the habit of tea to the English court.
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That was exactly my point as well :D
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I heard it was - Transporte Ervas de Aromaticas (T.E.A.) - a label on the queen's boxes of tea leaves from Portugal, that stuck with the English.
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In correct Portuguese that would be "Transporte de Ervas Aromáticas". Full story can be found here:https://ilastinwanderlust.wordpress.com/2014/09/15/guimaraes-where-t-e-a-comes-from/ …
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Oxford Dictionary says the origin is Chinese (Min dialect)https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/tea
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Another link for the etymology geeks ;) https://www.etymonline.com/word/tea
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