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From: hubey@pegasus.montclair.edu (H. M. Hubey)
Subject: Re: Original Chinese Language
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mcv@inter.NL.net (Miguel Carrasquer) writes:

>Turkish would seem a more likely source, but I don't know
>the Turkish for tea.  I'd be surprised if it wasn't c,ay.

You're right. It's "chay". 

>I've checked Serbo-Croatian and Czech, which also have
>c^aj.  The Polish word, of course, is herbata (even if the
>word for coffee, kawa, is clearly derived from Turkish).

This is in all likelihood from Arabic but it probably spread
everywhere from Turkish.

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						-- Mark---
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