Cantonese cha is treated as a Sinitic reflex of the word reconstructed as Old Chinese *lˤra; no false one-line sound law is invented.
CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP RECORD
COVERAGE LEDGER ↗EDGE / 0529sinitic reflexprobable
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茶
tea
OPEN NODE 573 ↗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 tea meaning remains stable.
Old Chinese reconstruction to the historically documented Cantonese form.
Östen Dahl · William H. Baxter · Laurent Sagart
probable — WALS identifies the Cantonese cha family; Baxter and Sagart supply the reviewed Old Chinese reconstruction. Intermediate readings are not over-specified.
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Chapter 138: TeaChapter 138 — Cantonese cha and the Sinitic cha class
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Places the Cantonese form in the Chinese-derived cha family.
Baxter–Sagart Old Chinese Reconstruction, Version 1.1Table row 茶 chá, PDF page 11: Old Chinese *lˤra
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Supplies the reviewed Old Chinese reconstruction without fabricating an intermediate reading.
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