Where does “ទី” come from?

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

ទី (Khmer): marker for ordinal numbers; nominalizer for...

Definitions

  1. marker for ordinal numbers; nominalizer for...

Ancestry of “ទី”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Chinese第—
2Chinese是—

Words derived from “ទី”

Every word from Chinese 是 →Every word from Chinese 第 →