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Baxter–Sagart Old Chinese Reconstruction, Version 1.1

AUTHOR / EDITOR: William H. Baxter and Laurent Sagart
YEAR: 2014
PUBLISHER: University of Michigan Linguistics
DOI: Not recorded
SOURCE TYPE: scholarly database
EXTERNAL RECORD: OPEN ORIGINAL ↗

11CANONICAL EDGES

0WITNESSES

0COMPARISONS

0CONTEXT LINKS

1RANKED REVEALS

1DISPUTES

6JOURNEY STAGES

7WORD DOSSIERS

CONTRARIAN TRUTH CLAIMS

RANKED REVEALS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE

RANK 180GRADE A-supports

Tea and chai are the same word after different journeys.

Both routes ultimately reach Chinese 茶. The te-type form traveled especially through Southern Min and Dutch maritime networks; the cha/chai-type family spread especially overland. WALS shows this is a global tendency with real exceptions, not a perfect rule.

*lˤra

*lˤra → 茶 → thee → tea

Table row 茶 chá, PDF page 11

Links Mandarin chá to reconstructed Middle Chinese drae and Old Chinese *lˤra for the same character and lexeme.

tea dossier ↗truth record ↗83UNVEILING

SCHOLARLY DISAGREEMENT

DISPUTE POSITIONS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE

opensupportsboundary

Is *lˤra the final word on the ancestry of tea?

It is the final reviewed reconstruction in this dossier, not a declaration that no deeper hypothesis exists. No unique deeper form is promoted until a competing analysis is encoded with direct evidence.

Table row 茶 chá, PDF page 11

Supplies *lˤra as the reviewed Old Chinese reconstruction and no single deeper form in this dataset.

chai dossier ↗dispute record ↗

CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP CLAIMS

EDGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE

EDGE 226supportsprobable

茶 → *lˤra

Xiamen Min Chinese → Old Chinese (reconstructed) · sinitic reflex

SOUND: 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.
MEANING: The plant or beverage meaning remains tea.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR: Östen Dahl · William H. Baxter · Laurent Sagart

Table row 茶 chá, PDF page 11: Middle Chinese drae; Old Chinese *lˤra

Supplies the reviewed Old Chinese reconstruction without routing Southern Min through Middle Chinese.

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EDGE 227supportsboundary

*lˤra → UNKNOWN

Old Chinese (reconstructed) → Beyond secure reconstruction · knowledge boundary

SOUND: No older form is promoted beyond Baxter and Sagart’s *lˤra in this reviewed path.
MEANING: The plant-name history reaches the present editorial evidence horizon.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR: SET-U editorial boundary

Table row 茶 chá, PDF page 11

The selected reconstruction table reaches Old Chinese *lˤra; SET-U makes the end of this reviewed chain explicit.

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EDGE 230supportsprobable

茶 → *drae

Mandarin Chinese → Middle Chinese (reconstructed reading) · historical continuation

SOUND: Modern Mandarin chá continues the Chinese word represented by reconstructed Middle Chinese *drae, with the onset and vowel changes summarized by the Baxter–Sagart correspondence table.
MEANING: The tea meaning remains stable.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR: William H. Baxter · Laurent Sagart

Table row 茶 chá, PDF page 11

Aligns Mandarin chá with reconstructed Middle Chinese drae.

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EDGE 231supportsprobable

drae → lˤra

Middle Chinese (reconstructed reading) → Old Chinese (reconstructed) · historical reconstruction

SOUND: Baxter and Sagart reconstruct Middle Chinese drae from Old Chinese *lˤra for the same character 茶.
MEANING: The gloss remains a plant name associated with tea.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR: William H. Baxter · Laurent Sagart

Table row 茶 chá, PDF page 11

Reconstructs Middle Chinese drae and Old Chinese *lˤra for 茶.

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EDGE 232supportsboundary

*lˤra → UNKNOWN

Old Chinese (reconstructed) → Beyond secure reconstruction · knowledge boundary

SOUND: No older form is promoted beyond Baxter and Sagart’s *lˤra in this reviewed path.
MEANING: The plant-name history reaches the present editorial evidence horizon.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR: SET-U editorial boundary

Table row 茶 chá, PDF page 11

The selected reconstruction table reaches Old Chinese *lˤra; SET-U makes the end of this reviewed chain explicit.

OPEN THE PERMANENT CLAIM ↗

EDGE 529supportsprobable

茶 → *lˤra

Cantonese → Old Chinese (reconstructed) · sinitic reflex

SOUND: Cantonese cha is treated as a Sinitic reflex of the word reconstructed as Old Chinese *lˤra; no false one-line sound law is invented.
MEANING: The tea meaning remains stable.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR: Östen Dahl · William H. Baxter · Laurent Sagart

Table row 茶 chá, PDF page 11: Old Chinese *lˤra

Supplies the reviewed Old Chinese reconstruction without fabricating an intermediate reading.

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EDGE 530supportsboundary

*lˤra → UNKNOWN

Old Chinese (reconstructed) → Beyond secure reconstruction · knowledge boundary

SOUND: No older form is promoted beyond Baxter and Sagart’s *lˤra in this reviewed path.
MEANING: The plant-name history reaches the present editorial evidence horizon.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR: SET-U editorial boundary

Table row 茶 chá, PDF page 11

The selected reconstruction table reaches Old Chinese *lˤra; SET-U makes the end of this reviewed chain explicit.

OPEN THE PERMANENT CLAIM ↗

EDGE 534supportsboundary

*lˤra → UNKNOWN

Old Chinese (reconstructed) → Beyond secure reconstruction · knowledge boundary

SOUND: No older form is promoted beyond Baxter and Sagart’s *lˤra in this reviewed path.
MEANING: The plant-name history reaches the present editorial evidence horizon.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR: SET-U editorial boundary

Table row 茶 chá, PDF page 11

The selected reconstruction table reaches Old Chinese *lˤra; SET-U makes the end of this reviewed chain explicit.

OPEN THE PERMANENT CLAIM ↗

EDGE 538supportsboundary

*lˤra → UNKNOWN

Old Chinese (reconstructed) → Beyond secure reconstruction · knowledge boundary

SOUND: No older form is promoted beyond Baxter and Sagart’s *lˤra in this reviewed path.
MEANING: The plant-name history reaches the present editorial evidence horizon.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR: SET-U editorial boundary

Table row 茶 chá, PDF page 11

The selected reconstruction table reaches Old Chinese *lˤra; SET-U makes the end of this reviewed chain explicit.

OPEN THE PERMANENT CLAIM ↗

EDGE 542supportsboundary

*lˤra → UNKNOWN

Old Chinese (reconstructed) → Beyond secure reconstruction · knowledge boundary

SOUND: No older form is promoted beyond Baxter and Sagart’s *lˤra in this reviewed path.
MEANING: The plant-name history reaches the present editorial evidence horizon.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR: SET-U editorial boundary

Table row 茶 chá, PDF page 11

The selected reconstruction table reaches Old Chinese *lˤra; SET-U makes the end of this reviewed chain explicit.

OPEN THE PERMANENT CLAIM ↗

EDGE 546supportsboundary

*lˤra → UNKNOWN

Old Chinese (reconstructed) → Beyond secure reconstruction · knowledge boundary

SOUND: No older form is promoted beyond Baxter and Sagart’s *lˤra in this reviewed path.
MEANING: The plant-name history reaches the present editorial evidence horizon.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR: SET-U editorial boundary

Table row 茶 chá, PDF page 11

The selected reconstruction table reaches Old Chinese *lˤra; SET-U makes the end of this reviewed chain explicit.

OPEN THE PERMANENT CLAIM ↗

LEXICAL ATTESTATIONS