Where does “ความโชคดี” come from?
ความโชคดี (Thai) comes from Thai โชคดี, from Thai ดี, from English Dee, from English do, from English ditto, from Italian ditto, from Italian detto, from Latin dictus — shoe.
Ancestry of “ความโชคดี”, step by step
ความโชคดี traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Thai โชคดี
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thai | โชคดี | good fortune; good luck |
| 2 | Thai | ดี | gallbladder; bile; good; on good terms; on a... |
| 3 | English | Dee | River Dee |
| 4 | English | do | A syntactic marker |
| 5 | English | ditto | That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the... |
| 6 | Italian | ditto | — |
| 7 | Italian | detto | past participle of dire; past participle of... |
| 8 | Latin | dictus | said, uttered; mentioned, spoken, having been... |
| 9 | Latin | dīcō | to say, talk, speak, utter, mention |
| 10 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 11 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 12 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 13 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 14 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 15 | Latin | calceus | shoe |