*SET-U

CANONICAL LANGUAGE GRAPH

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NODE / 0580attestedTurkish

çay

TRANSLITERATION çayPRONUNCIATION /tʃaj/

tea plant, leaves, beverage, and later social-event senses

DATE
Turkey Turkish record–today
SENSE
tea beverage
FAMILY
Turkic / Common Turkic · Oghuz
CANONICAL KEY
node:55:cay:attested:sense:tea-beverage

TDK documents the current lexeme; Boz separates its Chinese ultimate origin from a probable Persian bridge into historical Turkey Turkish.

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ANCESTRAL EDGES

ROOT OF THIS ROOT

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GO DEEPERborrowing via persianprobable
Mandarin Chinese · modern Mandarin · tea beverage

茶

tea

SOUND
Turkish çay belongs to the Chinese cha/chay family, but the reviewed Turkish study argues that historical Turkey Turkish received it through Persian rather than by direct Chinese contact.
MEANING
The core tea meaning remains, then Turkish develops ordinary plant, beverage, gathering, and refreshment senses.
CHRONOLOGY
Overland transmission into historical Turkey Turkish; no exact adoption year is invented.
SCHOLAR
Erdoğan Boz · Östen Dahl
CONFIDENCE
probable — Boz identifies Persian as the better bridge language; WALS supports the broader overland cha-type distribution without resolving every local intermediary.
Chapter 138: TeacontextChapter 138 — overland cha/chai-type distribution

Supplies the broader transmission tendency while preserving exceptions.

ORIGINAL ↗
Çay — Güncel Türkçe SözlükcontextGüncel Türkçe Sözlük — çay

Documents the current Turkish headword and semantic branches.

ORIGINAL ↗
Türkçe Sözlüklerde Çok Anlamlı Sözlük Birimlerindeki Art Zamanlı Anlam Değişme Olayları ve “Çay” Örneğisupportspp. 553–564 — Chinese ultimate origin and Persian bridge into historical Turkey Turkish

Argues that Persian is the more defensible bridge language rather than direct Chinese borrowing.

ORIGINAL ↗
OPEN CANONICAL EDGE 535 ↗
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DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES

THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP

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No reviewed descendants currently reuse this node. Absence describes the graph, not the entire history of the form.

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TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE

EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE

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No downstream edge has cleared review for this node. This is a graph-coverage statement, not a claim that the historical form produced nothing.

“Every” means every descendant in the reviewed SET-U graph. It does not convert missing scholarship or missing ingestion into a claim of historical completeness. The coverage ledger remains the honest denominator.

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RECORDED EVIDENCE

ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE

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EDITORIAL REUSE

WORD DOSSIERS USING THIS NODE

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01çayçay · established