PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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No secure one-hop event is established. Vasmer’s etymology routes the word through Turkic-speaking networks before reaching Chinese ch’a.
/tɕaj/ · noun
The Russian word for tea, placed by Vasmer in a chain through several Turkic languages ultimately reaching northern Chinese ch’a.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Supplies the mediated historical analysis.
Чай — path to northern Chinese ch’aProvides the global route-level context.
Chapter 138 — overland tendencyThe dossier distinguishes ultimate origin from transmission history.