Where does “ความยาว” come from?
ความยาว (Thai) comes from Thai ยาว, from Thai กว่า, from Thai ปาก, from Thai กา, from Thai กากบาท, from Thai บาท, from Pali pāda, from Sanskrit पाद — to walk, to step; to stumble, to fall.
ความยาว (Thai): length
Definitions
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Ancestry of “ความยาว”, step by step
ความยาว traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Thai ยาว
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thai | ยาว | long |
| 2 | Thai | กว่า | away; off |
| 3 | Thai | ปาก | mouth; brim |
| 4 | Thai | กา | crow; teapot; to make or write a cross symbol |
| 5 | Thai | กากบาท | cross symbol; plus symbol; Thai fourth tone mark |
| 6 | Thai | บาท | priest; foot; an honorific for or term of address... |
| 7 | Pali | pāda | foot; foot of a mountain; foot of a verse; a... |
| 8 | Sanskrit | पाद | the foot; the foot or leg of an inanimate object,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-Aryan | pā́ts | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | pā́ts | foot |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | pṓds | foot |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | póds | foot |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ped- | to walk, to step; to stumble, to fall |