Where does “tea” come from?
tea (Galician) comes from Old Portuguese tea, from Latin tēla, from Old Dutch tegela, from Proto-Germanic *tigulā, from Proto-Germanic tigulǭ, from Latin tēgula, from Latin tegō, from Proto-Italic tegō — to cover; pole, stick, beam.
tea (Galician): cloth; a piece of cloth; spiderweb
Definitions
- cloth; a piece of cloth; spiderweb
Ancestry of “tea”, step by step