Re: Pidgin Gothic (Was: Re: New Lang, but Just For Fun)
| From: | Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 21, 2000, 10:06 |
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rnierse@anwb.nl writes:
>(e.g. 'tea' comes from Turkish?)
Sorry I can't really help you too much, but "tea" actually comes from the
Amoy dialect of Chinese (yeah, i know, dialect, language, a fine line when
dealing with china). The Amoy word is t'e, in Mandarin it is "Ch'a"*
* tea in Tagalog is "tsa", probably from Chinese as well.
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