A Chinese source with an open route
The dictionary compares English tea with provincial Chinese te, but it does not identify the word’s intermediate route.
te→tea
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From reckoning to a person who calculates
Latin computare became English compute; adding -er produced computer, originally a person who calculates.
An older spelling behind a familiar word
Modern English night continues the Old English forms night and niht recorded by the dictionary.
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