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I see where Tolkien got his inspiration for Hobbit meals...
He's actually missing out elevenses and brunch.
Wrong. Herbata if Slav or Commonwealth.
Wrong. Herbata if Slav or Commonwealth.
Polish - pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbata
That's pretty much all exceptions.
In modern Taiwanese Min Nan, "tê" sounds more like "day" than "tea". Maybe it sounded different in the Min Nan of Fujian a few hundred years ago, or something was "lost in transcription" when the dutch wrote "thee".
My mums' native dialect is Teo Chiew, which is a variant of and falls under the Min Nan family of dialects (but can be quite different in many ways, a native speaker of one does not necessarily means mutual understanding of the others). And while similar, Teo Chiew uses a "dê” rather than "tê" for tea.
On another note, the area is also the origin of the "Gong Fu Cha" style tea ceremony. [1]
It can also refer to food like lunch or dinner which the danish school system did not prepare me for in their english lessons, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_(meal)#Tea_as_the_evening_...
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As a Londoner who moved north, it continually confuses me too. "What are you having for tea?" "Oh, err... just milk thanks"
In French, dejeuner, meaning literally breakfast, used to mean just that. But the nobility was used to getting up so late that dejeuner became lunch, diner became the evening meal, and they invented the 'petit dejeuner' to name the breakfast. In southern France and rural areas, dejeuner remained breakfast, dinner the mid-day meal, and souper the evening one. Miscommunication ensues :)
Wiktionary says: dîner, From Old French disner, from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre, from disieiūnāre, disjejūnāre (“to break the fast”)
Wrong. Herbata if Slav or Commonwealth.
Comments like this are what the internet is all about! AFAIK Yugoslavs call tea "čaj" (pronounced... chai!). I have no idea about other Slavs. And if by Commonwealth you mean the British one, I think the biggest member state is India, where "chai" is also the word.
《正字通》引《魏了翁集》曰：茶之始，其字爲荼，如《春秋》齊荼、《漢志》荼陵之類。陸、顏諸人，雖已轉入茶音，未嘗輒攺字文。惟陸羽、盧仝以後，則遂易荼爲茶。
荼，普通话tú。现在楚地发音tǘ，往东南地区（闽越）变化，就变成了ti或者tie，再往东南亚地区很接近di或者die。