Sindarin 

suithlas

noun. tea, *(lit.) drink of leaf

yllas

noun. tea, *(lit.) drink of leaf

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Quenya 

yullas

noun. tea

A neologism for “tea” coined by Tamas Ferencz, a combination of yul- “drink” and lassë “leaf”; compare G. suithlas “tea, ✱(lit.) drink of leaf”.

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Gnomish

suithlas

noun. tea

A noun appearing as G. suithlas “tea” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, a combination of G. suith “drink” and G. lass “leaf” (GL/68).

Neo-Sindarin: The first element of this Gnomish word was derived from the early root ᴱ√SOKO “drink”, and there are signs that the root √SOK survived as late as 1960 (VT39/11). As such, I’d retain ᴺS. suithlas “tea, (lit.) drink-leaf” for purposes of Neo-Sindarin. However Steve/Ríon proposed a neologism ᴺS. yllas “tea” in the Vinyë Lambengolmor Discord Server (VLDS) on 2018-11-18, based on the assumption that √YUL “drink” replaced √SOK.

Early Quenya

tyé

noun. tea

A word for “tea” in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s, clearly a loan word from some mortal language, though the path of transmission isn’t clear (QL/49). European words for “tea” are generally based on either Mandarin ch’a via Portuguese or Amoy t’e (a Chinese dialect) via Dutch, becoming in English “chai” or “tea” respectively.

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