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PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 152

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 04regionalNO SINGLE PIN

Modern Hindi–Urdu

South Asia

chai DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

The general tea word cāy becomes the culturally salient source family for English culinary chai.

COORDINATES STORED
NO
HONEST TO PLOT
NO
PLACEMENT MODE
regional
TIME PRECISION
unresolved
NUMERIC TIME BOUND
WITHHELD
CLAIM CITATIONS
1
THE TEMPORAL CLAIM

NO YEAR HAS BEEN INVENTED.

The source establishes modern Hindi and Urdu forms but does not identify one defensible start year for the South Asian stage.

DIRECT STAGE-LEVEL PROVENANCE

AUDIT THE ROUTE CLAIM.

Every source below identifies its exact stance, locator, and evidentiary contribution.

  1. supports

    Chai — Definition and Word History

    Names Hindi and Urdu chay meaning tea among the source forms while defining English chai as a milk-and-spice tea blend, supporting the displayed general-to-specialized sense route.

    Word History: Etymology and headword definitionAUDIT SOURCE ↗