Remember that drink I invented yesterday? (oc)

[u/DaveKellett]

COME for the acrid taste, but STAY for the lack of caffeine!

[u/Extension-Beat7276]

It was chewed in the Kaffa kingdom not drank

[u/BernLan → u/Extension-Beat7276]

Yeah, coffee as a beverage was invented in Yemen after acquiring the beans (native to Ethiopia) through trade with Kaffa

[u/Extension-Beat7276 → u/BernLan]

Yea exactly there was like a coffee road of sorts from Kaffa to Shewa then to Zeila to Yemen and from Yemen to Suez and Cairo then Istanbul 

[u/BernLan → u/Extension-Beat7276]

Yeah I find the history of trade extremely interesting

Two of my favourite examples that also happen to relate to etymology are oranges and tea

Sour Oranges arrived in the Iberian Peninsula through Andalus and the Arabic word for them was "naranj" which resulted in the Portuguese/Spanish words Laranja/Naranja

Many centuries later Portugal arrives in China and brings back Sweet Oranges, and then traded them with Napoli who started calling sweet oranges "Portucale" and traded them across the Mediterranean

Which resulted in the word for orange in the Ottoman Empire becoming "Portucale", and nowadays the Arabic word for orange is Bortugal

So the Portuguese word for orange has its origin in Arabic and simultaneously the Arabic word for orange has its origin in Portugal

Tea is also similarly interesting and also involves Portugal, in most of the world the word for tea either has its origin on "thé" or "chai" depending on which region of China it is traced back to

Portugal was the first European country to acquire tea from China, and did it from the region that called it "chai" resulting in the Portuguese word for tea being "chá", however Portugal never traded tea to the rest of Europe.

Decades later The Dutch also acquired tea and brought it over to Europe, but they got it from the "thé" region and unlike Portugal they traded it with the rest of Europe, resulting in the word for tea in all the western European languages being related to "thé" with the sole exception of Portugal