PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
ALL DISPUTES ↗One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
WALS gives a Cantonese cha route through Macao; Infopédia labels the source Mandarin chá. The shared cha-type Chinese family is secure, but the immediate variety label is not unanimous.
/ˈʃa/ · noun
The Portuguese word for tea, a European cha-type form associated with sixteenth-century Portuguese contact through Macao rather than the Dutch te-type route.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
A citation is not a vote. Each record says whether the work supports, challenges, contradicts, or contextualizes the position—and identifies the exact locus used.
Supplies the historically specific donor claim.
Chapter 138 — Portuguese chá from Cantonese cha through MacaoSupplies the competing Mandarin donor label.
Etimologia — do mandarim cháThe graph follows the more historically specific Macao–Cantonese route at probable confidence and cites the challenge on the edge.