Where does “សន្តិសុខ” come from?
សន្តិសុខ (Khmer) comes from Khmer សុខ, from Pali sukha, from Sanskrit सुख, from Sanskrit सु-, from Proto-Indo-Aryan Hsu-, from Proto-Indo-Iranian Hsu-, from Proto-Indo-European h₁su-, from Proto-Indo-European h₁wes- — good; to be cheerful, happy; to eat, to feast.
សន្តិសុខ (Khmer): security; safety
Definitions
- security; safety
Ancestry of “សន្តិសុខ”, step by step
សន្តិសុខ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Khmer សុខ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Khmer | សុខ | to be healthy |
| 2 | Pali | sukha | happiness, comfort |
| 3 | Sanskrit | सुख | running swiftly or easily only applied to cars or chariots, superlative, easy |
| 4 | Sanskrit | सु- | good, well |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-Aryan | Hsu- | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | Hsu- | good |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁su- | good |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁wes- | good; to be cheerful, happy; to eat, to feast |
via Khmer សន្តិ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Khmer | សន្តិ | peace, tranquility, calm; nirvana; pleasure,... |
| 2 | Pali | santi | peace; tranquillity; present third-person plural... |
| 3 | Sanskrit | शान्ति | rest; alleviation, pacification, consolation;... |
| 4 | Sanskrit | शम् | to toil at, fatigue or exert one's self; to... |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱemh₂- | to toil, to exert oneself |