Why is "tea" "the" in french?

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Permalink Reply by Erwan on November 23, 2011 at 5:13pm

If you're interested in the etymology  of these words you can read the wikipedia page :

English version : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea

French version : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9

In French "tea" is "thé" . They both come from the same asiatic word used by Dutch people afterwards.

It's then not that stupid :-)

 

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