Комментарии:Also read OC *ƛa, MC śö, FQ 商居, Pek. shū 'a k. of jade vessel' [LZ]. For the meaning 'bitter plant' there exists a dialectal late OC reading *lia (MC źa, FQ 食遮). An irregular parallel MC reading (also going back to *Łā) is ḍạ; this reading branched off from the original OC *Łā during late Han period and acquired the meaning 'tea'. At that time a special character for 'tea' (茶), being originally a variant of 荼, was also introduced. For *Ł- cf. Min forms: Xiamen, Chaozhou te2, Fuzhou, Jianou ta2; Siam. ǯhā (*ǯā).
