EPISODE · Jan 15, 2017 · 17 MIN

Episode 19: Tea

from Words for Granted - An etymology and linguistics podcast

Words for 'tea' in languages around the world fall into one of two etymological categories: te-derived and cha-derived. Both are ultimately derived from different dialects of Chinese. Based on the geolinguistic distribution of these two etymological categories, we can learn a lot about the history of the tea trade itself.

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