[Assam] [Indo-Eurasia] tea leaf

[umesh sharma]

anyone to the rescue?

Umesh

"Victor H. Mair" <vmair at sas.upenn.edu> wrote: To: Indo-Eurasian_research at yahoogroups.com
From: "Victor H. Mair" <vmair at sas.upenn.edu>
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:43:00 -0400
Subject: [Indo-Eurasia] tea leaf

                                  Dear List,
 
 I've been discovering that a common word for "tea" in both 
 Austro-Asiatic languages and Tibeto-Burman languages is LA, which seems 
 originally to have meant "leaf."  In some of the hill languages I've 
 been looking at, the word for "tea" is roughly LUB.  Now, I find it 
 curious that the English word "leaf" seems to go back to an IE root 
 *LOUBH- / LUBH- (Pok. 690), which means "bark, bast".
 
 There's another word for fermented tea in some of the Austro-Asiatic 
 languages I've looked at, and that is MING (or some such).
 
 Does anyone have any thoughts about why both T-B and A-A languages have 
 LA for "tea"?  Did one of them borrow from the other?  Or might they 
 have had a common ancestor?
 
 Finally, if any members of the List have knowledge of particular A-A or 
 T-B languages, especially in the Yunnan-Burma-Assam region, I would very 
 much appreciate hearing from you what words they use for "tea."
 
 Ciao,
 
 Victor
 
     
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Umesh Sharma

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