←
Proto-Austroasiatic *sla (cognate)
←
Proto-Mon-Khmer *slaʔ (cognate)
←
Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la (inherited)
←
Proto-Loloish *la¹ (borrowed)
→
Assamese চাহ (borrowed)
→
Bodo (India) साहा (mention)
→
Mandarin ᠴᠠᡳ (borrowed(cmn/mnc))
→
Lower Sorbian čaj (derived)
→
Iu Mien zaah (borrowed)
→
Mongolian цай (derived)
→
Ottoman Turkish چای (link)
→
Kapampangan cha (borrowed)
→
Brooke's Point Palawano tsaa (derived)
→
Romanian ceai (derived)
→
Vietnamese lá (cognate)