Where does “ទីពិសោធ” come from?

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

ទីពិសោធ (Khmer): laboratory, lab

Definitions

  1. laboratory, lab

Ancestry of “ទីពិសោធ”, step by step

ទីពិសោធ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Khmer ទី

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

via Khmer ពិសោធ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Khmerពិសោធto experiment, to test
2Palivisodha—
Every word from Chinese 是 →Every word from Chinese 第 →Every word from Khmer ទី →