English

tea set

From tea + set.

A compound of tea + set

Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-la ‘leaf’

Hokkien 茶

Dutch thee

English tea

Proto-Indo-European *sed- ‘to sit’

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Proto-Germanic *satjaną ‘to set’

Proto-West Germanic *sattjan ‘to set’

Old English settan ‘to set’

Middle English setten ‘to seat’

English set

Today it means

noun A set of crockery for making and serving tea (the drink).

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.