Where does “กำขี้ดีกว่ากำตด” come from?
กำขี้ดีกว่ากำตด (Thai) comes from Thai ดี, from English Dee, from English do, from English ditto, from Italian ditto, from Italian detto, from Latin dictus, from Latin dīcō — limestone; chalk; the finish line.
กำขี้ดีกว่ากำตด (Thai): something is better than nothing; half a loaf is better than none
Definitions
- something is better than nothing; half a loaf is better than none
Ancestry of “กำขี้ดีกว่ากำตด”, step by step
กำขี้ดีกว่ากำตด traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Thai ดี
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thai | ดี | gallbladder; bile; good; on good terms; on a... |
| 2 | English | Dee | River Dee |
| 3 | English | do | A syntactic marker |
| 4 | English | ditto | That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the... |
| 5 | Italian | ditto | — |
| 6 | Italian | detto | past participle of dire; past participle of... |
| 7 | Latin | dictus | said, uttered; mentioned, spoken, having been... |
| 8 | Latin | dīcō | to say, talk, speak, utter, mention |
| 9 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 10 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 11 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 12 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 13 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 14 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 15 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
via Thai กว่า
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thai | กว่า | away; off |
| 2 | Thai | ปาก | mouth; brim |
| 3 | Thai | กา | crow; teapot; to make or write a cross symbol |
| 4 | Thai | กากบาท | cross symbol; plus symbol; Thai fourth tone mark |
| 5 | Thai | บาท | priest; foot; an honorific for or term of address... |
| 6 | Pali | pāda | foot; foot of a mountain; foot of a verse; a... |
| 7 | Sanskrit | पाद | the foot; the foot or leg of an inanimate object,... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-Aryan | pā́ts | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | pā́ts | foot |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | pṓds | foot |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | póds | foot |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ped- | to walk, to step; to stumble, to fall |