Where does “ជាទី” come from?

ជាទី (Khmer) comes from Khmer ទី, from Chinese 第, from Chinese 是.

ជាទី (Khmer): to be worthy of..., to be the object of

Definitions

  1. to be worthy of..., to be the object of

Ancestry of “ជាទី”, step by step

ជាទី traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Khmer ទី

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Khmerទីmarker for ordinal numbers; nominalizer for...
2Chinese第—
3Chinese是—

via Khmer ជា

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Khmerជាto be, to be equal to, equivalent to, the same as
2Thaiช้ำbruised
Every word from Chinese 是 →Every word from Chinese 第 →Every word from Khmer ទី →