Where does “ความดี” come from?
ความดี (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.
ความดี (Thai): goodness; virtue; merit
Definitions
- goodness; virtue; merit
Ancestry of “ความดี”, step by step
ความดี traces back through two 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 |