Southern Min te is treated as a divergent Sinitic reflex of the word reconstructed by Baxter and Sagart as Old Chinese *lˤra; the exact sound history is not reduced here to one uncontroversial rule.
CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP RECORD
COVERAGE LEDGER ↗EDGE / 0226sinitic reflexprobable
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茶
tea
OPEN NODE 230 ↗DESCENDS FROM→
PARENT / EARLIER FORM / reconstructedOld Chinese (reconstructed) · Old Chinese reconstruction · tea beverage*lˤra
name of a plant
OPEN NODE 231 ↗01
THE COMPLETE RELATIONSHIP
EVERY FIELD, NOT A FAIRY TALE
The plant or beverage meaning remains tea.
Old Chinese reconstruction to the historically documented Southern Min form.
Östen Dahl · William H. Baxter · Laurent Sagart
probable — WALS establishes the Min Nan te family; Baxter and Sagart establish the reviewed Old Chinese reconstruction. The Min branch is not falsely routed through the later Middle Chinese *drae reading.
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Chapter 138: TeaChapter 138, values 1 and 2 and explanatory discussion
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Establishes the two major Chinese-derived cha and te distributions and identifies the Min Nan te-type family.
Baxter–Sagart Old Chinese Reconstruction, Version 1.1Table row 茶 chá, PDF page 11: Middle Chinese drae; Old Chinese *lˤra
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Supplies the reviewed Old Chinese reconstruction without routing Southern Min through Middle Chinese.
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