Where does “ទីតាំង” come from?

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

ទីតាំង (Khmer): position

Definitions

  1. position

Ancestry of “ទីតាំង”, step by step

ទីតាំង traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Khmer ទី

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

via Khmer តាំង

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Khmerតាំងto establish, create, erect
Every word from Chinese 是 →Every word from Chinese 第 →Every word from Khmer ទី →