Where does “茶の間” come from?

茶の間 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 茶, from Japanese 葉, from Middle Chinese 葉.

茶の間 (Japanese): living room

Definitions

  1. living room

Ancestry of “茶の間”, step by step

茶の間 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 茶

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese茶tea; brown
2Japanese葉leaf, needle, blade; a season, an age: a shorter...
3Middle Chinese葉—

via Japanese 間

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese間interval; "suffixes some expressions of time to...
2Middle Chinese間—
Every word from Middle Chinese 葉 →Every word from Japanese 葉 →Every word from Japanese 茶 →