On: The Political History of Pad Thai

[chadlavi]

The etymology of the word Chai is from Hindi-Urdu चाय (cāy) / چای‎ (cāy), from Persian چای‎ (and Turkish çay, and cognates) from Sinitic 茶 (chá).[0]

It has nothing to do with its country of origin (I assume you meant China?).

0: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chai#Etymology_2

[kenneth → chadlavi]

All tea originated in China. In southern Chinese dialects tea is called "Cha," which is where other languages got their "Cha" sounding word for tea, and this includes the Indian languages afaik.

The northern dialects' word sounded more like "tea" which is where the Western languages got their word for tea, through trade

[brisance → kenneth]

You've got the geographic regions mixed up. Northern Chinese refer it to "cha", while Southern Chinese call it "te" (sounds like tailor). Even though India is geographically closer to southern China, they got the word from Portuguese.

[chadlavi → kenneth]

sure, but I was specifically refuting

> The root of the word “Chai” is in fact the country of its origin —- which is not india.

which seems to imply that cha somehow is related to the name of the plant's country of origin.