te.
tea (plant) (Camellia sinensis)
Meaning & usage
tea (plant) (Camellia sinensis)
tea (the dried leaves from the tea plant, also parts from other plants)
tea (a beverage made from tea leaves, also similar beverages made from other plants)
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Dutch thee, from Hokkien 茶 (tê, “tea”), compare English tea, German Tee, French thé.
behave
Where this word comes from
From Old Norse tjá, from Proto-Germanic *tīhaną (“to show”), cognate with Icelandic tjá, Faroese tíggja, Swedish te, German zeihen (“to accuse”). The verb goes back to Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to show”), which is also the source of Latin dīcō (“to say”), Ancient Greek δείκνυμι (deíknumi, “to show”).
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