Where does “amacha” come from?

amacha (English) comes from Japanese 甘茶, from Japanese 茶, from Japanese 葉, from Middle Chinese 葉.

amacha (English): A sweet Japanese herbal tea made from the fermented leaves of Hydrangea macrophylla var. thunbergii

Definitions

  1. A sweet Japanese herbal tea made from the fermented leaves of Hydrangea macrophylla var. thunbergii

Ancestry of “amacha”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese甘茶Hydrangea macrophylla var. thunbergii, a variety of bigleaf hydrangea
2Japanese茶tea; brown
3Japanese葉leaf, needle, blade; a season, an age: a shorter...
4Middle Chinese葉—
Every word from Middle Chinese 葉 →Every word from Japanese 葉 →Every word from Japanese 茶 →