{"id":785,"date":"2019-07-29T08:52:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T08:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rivon.in.ua\/shop\/?p=785"},"modified":"2019-07-29T08:56:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T08:56:36","slug":"tea-in-european-languages-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rivon.in.ua\/shop\/2019\/07\/29\/tea-in-european-languages-map\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTea\u201d in European Languages (map)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know that \u201ctea\u201d is either \u201cte\u201d or \u201ccha(i)\u201d in almost all languages in the world? Both names originally come from Chinese \u8336, which is pronounced as \u201ccha\u201d (as in \u201cCharles\u201d, with a rising intonation) in Mandarin Chinese (and similarly and Cantonese), but the same character is pronounced \u201cta\u201d or \u201cte\u201d in Min Chinese.<\/p>

The first nation to bring tea to Europe were the Portuguese, who borrowed the word \u201cch\u00e1\u201d from Cantonese-speaking regions of China in the 1550s. On the other hand, the Dutch, who played an essential role in the introduction of tea in Western Europe in the 17th century, borrowed the word \u201cthee\u201d from Min-Chinese\u2013speaking parts of China, and the entire Western Europe, except the Portuguese, have adopted some variation of the Dutch word.<\/p>

Since the Portuguese haven\u2019t had much success with spreading the word \u201cch\u00e1\u201d, how come most of Eastern Europe say \u201cchai\u201d? This word came in yet another way. The form \u201cchai\u201d likely developed in Persian from its Chinese predecessor, and from there it spread throughout Eastern Europe and the eastern half of Southern Europe (via Russian, thanks to Russia\u2019s trade relations with Central Asia):<\/p>

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Did you know that \u201ctea\u201d is either \u201cte\u201d or \u201ccha(i)\u201d in almost all languages in the world? Both names originally come from Chinese \u8336, which is pronounced as \u201ccha\u201d (as in \u201cCharles\u201d, with a rising intonation) in Mandarin Chinese (and similarly and Cantonese), but the same character is pronounced \u201cta\u201d or \u201cte\u201d in Min Chinese.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abouttea"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivon.in.ua\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivon.in.ua\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivon.in.ua\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivon.in.ua\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivon.in.ua\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rivon.in.ua\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"https:\/\/rivon.in.ua\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivon.in.ua\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rivon.in.ua\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivon.in.ua\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rivon.in.ua\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}