Where does “ความขม” come from?

ความขม (Thai) comes from Thai ความ, from Proto-Tai ɣwaːmᴬ — matter.

ความขม (Thai): bitterness

Definitions

  1. bitterness

Ancestry of “ความขม”, step by step

ความขม traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Thai ความ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiความaffair; matter; content; essence; subject;...
2Proto-Taiɣwaːmᴬmatter

via Thai ขม

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiขมbitter
2Proto-TaiC̬.qɤmᴬbitter
Every word from Proto-Tai ɣwaːmᴬ →Every word from Thai ความ →