Where does “กินเจ” come from?
กินเจ (Thai) comes from Thai เจ, from English Jay, from English jy, from English I, from Old French i, from Latin hīc, from Latin heic, from Latin hic — whale, sea monster; abyss.
กินเจ (Thai): to practice vegetarianism
Definitions
- to practice vegetarianism
Ancestry of “กินเจ”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Thai | เจ | vegetarianism with some prohibited vegetables as... |
| 2 | English | Jay | — |
| 3 | English | jy | The name of the Latin-script letter J |
| 4 | English | I | The speaker or writer, referred to as the... |
| 5 | Old French | i | there |
| 6 | Latin | hīc | — |
| 7 | Latin | heic | — |
| 8 | Latin | hic | this; these; this one; this ; these ones ; these... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | hek(e) | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | gʰi-ḱe | this, here |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱe | Deictic particle, here; Post-positional... |
| 12 | Middle English | kyt | — |
| 13 | Russian | кит | whale; genitive plural of ки́та |
| 14 | Old Church Slavonic | китъ | whale |
| 15 | Ancient Greek | κῆτος | whale, sea monster; abyss |