From: utzoo!utcsrgv!dave
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Re: Cognates in lots of languages
Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.1175
Posted: Mon Mar 14 13:13:01 1983
Received: Mon Mar 14 13:18:27 1983
References: ecn-pa.791

Since tea originated in China, it's not surprising that its name
should have followed it wherever it went. Incidentally, the
Portuguese word for tea is "cha" also.

Another interesting one: the word for "date" (the edible kind) in
Hebrew is "tamar", and in Portugues is "tamara". Were dates brought
by the Moors from North Africa to the Iberian Peninsula?

Dave Sherman
Toronto