Where does “ជាដើម” come from?

ជាដើម (Khmer) comes from Khmer ជា, from Thai ช้ำ — bruised.

ជាដើម (Khmer): et cetera, as listed above, beginning with (when mentioning the first few items of a list)

Definitions

  1. et cetera, as listed above, beginning with (when mentioning the first few items of a list)

Ancestry of “ជាដើម”, step by step

ជាដើម traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Khmer ជា

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Khmerជាto be, to be equal to, equivalent to, the same as
2Thaiช้ำbruised

via Khmer ដើម

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Khmerដើមtrunk (of a tree or of the body), stock (of a rifle)
Every word from Thai ช้ำ →Every word from Khmer ជា →