Where does “កិច្ចការ” come from?
កិច្ចការ (Khmer) comes from Khmer ការ, from French carreau, from Old French quarel, from Vulgar Latin quadrellus, from Latin quādrus, from Latin quattŭor, from Portuguese quarto, from Old Portuguese quarto — and.
កិច្ចការ (Khmer): job, work
Definitions
- job, work
Ancestry of “កិច្ចការ”, step by step
កិច្ចការ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Khmer ការ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Khmer | ការ | nominalizer to make abstract nouns from verbs;... |
| 2 | French | carreau | square; diamonds; tile |
| 3 | Old French | quarel | square block of stone; square-headed bolt for a... |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | quadrellus | — |
| 5 | Latin | quādrus | square |
| 6 | Latin | quattŭor | four; 4 |
| 7 | Portuguese | quarto | ordinal form of quatro; fourth; quarter; fourth;... |
| 8 | Old Portuguese | quarto | quarter |
| 9 | Latin | quārtus | fourth |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷeturtos | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷetwóres | four |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷe- | and |
via Khmer កិច្ច
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Khmer | កិច្ច | act, deed; affair, matter; task, work |
| 2 | Pali | kicca | that which ought to be done; duty, obligation;... |
| 3 | Sanskrit | कृत्य | ‘to be done or performed’; practicable, feasible;... |
| 4 | Sanskrit | -य | suffix denoting state or origin |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | -yós | Creates adjectives from noun or verb stems |