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Can we please stop viewing history from an exclusively western pov and refer to “Persian” and “Persia” from a native pov where we are IRANIANS? Chances are the people who borrowed Chay and introduced it into Iranian culture were probably ancestors of the modern day Tajiks or Pashtuns, not the actual
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Indeed. If "tea" and "thé" are considered the same category, "chå" and "chai" should also be considered the same category. They both only have one difference, the ending vowel sound - in the former case, the long high unrounded vowel vs. the mid-front unrounded vowel ; in the latter case, the open
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Hi, I've been told and I found in the internet that the word "tea" would derive from a confusion on the meaning of the letters "T.E.A." on the first supplies of tea leaves to Great Britain, the actual meaning of "TEA" having been "Transporte de Ervas Aromaticas" in Portuguese language - see here:
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This is just too silly to deserve any treatment anywhere. The article describes the rich entanglement of the various (well, three, really) base forms of the name, and where they came from. Any idiot can make up a silly story for the internet; unless such an urban myth had been accepted for a
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The northern derived pronunciation referenced in the chai section is not substantively different from the root of all of the other cha variations. Additionally, most other online sources discussing this topic only recognize two buckets of pronunciation, tea and cha.
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When and how do Japanese and Korean use words like da/ta for tea, and in that case, aren't they also derived from Chinese, just as cha? It looks similar as to how Japanese uses the root sa- for tea in certain compounds, such as kissaten.
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On top of this, it's difficult not to notice the lack of citations for all claims for a 3-bucket classification, while the rest of the article is generally well-referenced.
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modern day Persians. For the most part, Persian and Persia is just an exonym. It’s about time we called everything historical “Iran” or “Iranian”.
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front unrounded vowel vs. the diphthong . Arguably, because chai contains the phoneme, it's actually *more* similar to chĂ  than thĂš is to tea.
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Could someone share a source for the Moroccan and Berber name please? Thank you.
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AFAIK, Iran officially started calling itself Iran during the
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half-century at some stage, it does not deserve a mention.
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