Where does “teo” come from?
teo (Esperanto) comes from Italian tè, from French thé, from Dutch thee, from Malay teh, from Malay putih, from Classical Malay putih, from Proto-Malayic putih, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (ma-)putiq — white.
teo (Esperanto): tea
Ancestry of “teo”, step by step