Where does “ค่าเทอม” come from?

ค่าเทอม (Thai) comes from Thai เทอม, from English term, from English terminal, from French terminal, from Latin terminalis, from Latin Terminus, from Proto-Indo-European ter-, from Italian termine — boundary, end.

ค่าเทอม (Thai): tuition fees

Definitions

  1. tuition fees

Ancestry of “ค่าเทอม”, step by step

ค่าเทอม traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Thai เทอม

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiเทอมsemester
2EnglishtermThat which limits the extent of anything; limit,...
3EnglishterminalA building in an airport where passengers...
4Frenchterminalterminal
5Latinterminalisboundary; terminal; final, concluding
6LatinTerminusthe deity presiding over boundaries; a personification of the term terminus
7Proto-Indo-Europeanter-tender, weak; young creature
8Italiantermineend, close; limit, term, date, time; term, word
9Latinterminusa boundary, limit, end
10Proto-Italictermenos
11Proto-Indo-Europeantérmn̥boundary, end

via Thai ค่า

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiค่าprice, cost, fee; Alternative form of ค่ะ
2Middle Chinese
Every word from Proto-Indo-European térmn̥Every word from Proto-Italic termenosEvery word from Proto-Indo-European ter-