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
กินเจ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Thai เจ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thai | เจ | vegetarianism with some prohibited vegetables as... |
| 2 | English | Jay | from, a nickname for a chatty or showy person |
| 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 | this; these in the plural |
| 7 | Latin | heic | — |
| 8 | Latin | hic | this; these in the plural |
| 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 |