Where does “ទី” come from?
ទី (Khmer) comes from Chinese 第, from Chinese 是.
ទី (Khmer): marker for ordinal numbers; nominalizer for...
Definitions
- marker for ordinal numbers; nominalizer for...
Ancestry of “ទី”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Chinese | 第 | — |
| 2 | Chinese | 是 | — |