I am a 3-letter word
that wakes up half the world
before breakfast.
What am I?

Q: I am a 3-letter word that wakes up half the world before breakfast. What am I?

Tea (or chai).. From the Mandarin ‘cha’ came chai, chái, saì, and English ‘tea’ (via the Min Nan dialect, picked up by Dutch traders). One leaf, a hundred names.

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Tea (or chai). — From the Mandarin ‘cha’ came chai, chái, saì, and English ‘tea’ (via the Min Nan dialect, picked up by Dutch traders). One leaf, a hundred names.