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I discovered last night that an old Welsh expression for tea is llap y dwndwr<\/strong> [\u026cap \u0259 \u02c8d\u028and\u028ar], which could be translated as meaning “the drink that makes one talkative” or “the drink of chatter”. It is also the name of a tune.<\/p>\n The word llap<\/em> means soft and wet, and appears in the expression bwyd llap<\/em> (soft and wet food), which can refer to soup (cawl<\/em>) or rice pudding (bwdin reis<\/em>).<\/p>\n The word dwndwr<\/em> means noise; to make a noise; to bluster, prattle or babble; or to daunt, hector or bully. A related word is dwndrio<\/em> = to babble or talk too much. It appears in the expressions cap y dwndwr<\/em> = rattlepate (a frivolous, talkative person), and rhap y dwndwr<\/em> = a gossip, or loud-mouthed person.<\/p>\n Other poetic\/slang names for tea include dail y dwndwr<\/em> (“the leaves of chatter”) and llysiau’r dwndwr (“the herbs of chatter”).<\/p>\n In colloquial Welsh tea is te<\/em> [t\u025b] and a cup of tea is panad<\/em> or paned<\/em> in North Wales – this comes from cwpaned o de<\/em> (cup of tea), and it’s disgled (o de)<\/em> in South Wales.<\/p>\n Does tea have any interesting names in other languages?<\/p>\n