Where does “ទីនោះ” come from?

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

ទីនោះ (Khmer): there

Definitions

  1. there

Ancestry of “ទីនោះ”, step by step

ទីនោះ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Khmer ទី

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

via Khmer នោះ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Khmerនោះthat
Every word from Chinese 是 →Every word from Chinese 第 →Every word from Khmer ទី →