Where does “ទីលាន” come from?

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

ទីលាន (Khmer): yard, field, grounds

Definitions

  1. yard, field, grounds

Ancestry of “ទីលាន”, step by step

ទីលាន traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Khmer ទី

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

via Khmer លាន

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Khmerលានmillion
2Thaiล้านmillion; bald

Words derived from “ទីលាន”

Every word from Chinese 是 →Every word from Chinese 第 →Every word from Khmer ទី →