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Joe Fineman  
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 More options Sep 13 2012, 5:57 pm
Newsgroups: sci.lang
From: Joe Fineman <jo...@verizon.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:57:02 -0400
Local: Thurs, Sep 13 2012 5:57 pm
Subject: Re: word words
Yusuf B Gursey <ygur...@gmail.com> writes:

> in Persian and Turkic *ch*a:y / *ch*ay means "tea" from Chinese
> (Mandarin). tea is from Cantonese.

So also in Russian.  The specialized sense of the import into English,
tho, seems to refer to Indian styles.
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