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salt, tea, .. one can follow migrations.. and criss-crosses.. btw, "orange" as color in Bulgarian is still "orange" (оранжев/а/о/и), but "orange" as fruit is

• adrian_b 2y ago
  Salt and tea are good examples for the 2 reasons that can be the cause for finding the same word in many languages. Salt is an ancient Indo-European word that was already in use several millennia ago, so it has been inherited in most Indo-European languages. Tea is a relatively recent borrowing in the European languages, which has spread from one language to another, with a few pronunciation variants, across all Europe, regardless of the genetic relationships between languages.
• wongarsu 2y ago
  Poland took issue with the story that worldwide there are only two words for tee, and which one you use depends on whether you got introduced to tea via sea or via land