Where does “ត្រីមាស” come from?

ត្រីមាស (Khmer) comes from Khmer មាស, from French masse, from Old French mace, from Vulgar Latin mattia, from Latin mateola, from Latin -ulus, from Proto-Italic -olos, from Proto-Italic -elos — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.

ត្រីមាស (Khmer): trimester, quarter

Definitions

  1. trimester, quarter

Ancestry of “ត្រីមាស”, step by step

ត្រីមាស traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Khmer មាស

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Khmerមាសgold
2Frenchmassea paste, a dough; large amount or quantity of...
3Old Frenchmacemace weapon
4Vulgar Latinmattia
5LatinmateolaThe meaning of this term is uncertain....
6Latin-ulusUsed to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating...
7Proto-Italic-olos
8Proto-Italic-elosForms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns
9Proto-Indo-European-e-lós
10Proto-Indo-European-lósForms agent nouns from verbal roots

via Khmer ត្រី

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Khmerត្រីfish; pawn
2Sanskritत्रिthree
3Proto-Indo-Aryantráyasthree
4Proto-Indo-Iraniantráyasthree
5Proto-Indo-European*tréyes
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -lósEvery word from Latin -ulusEvery word from Latin mateola