Where does “ฉ้อโกง” come from?

ฉ้อโกง (Thai) comes from Thai โกง, from Proto-Mon-Khmer koŋ, from Proto-Athabaskan *qʊ̓nʼ — fire.

ฉ้อโกง (Thai): fraud

Definitions

  1. fraud

Ancestry of “ฉ้อโกง”, step by step

ฉ้อโกง traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Thai โกง

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiโกงto cheat; to deceit; to swindle
2Proto-Mon-Khmerkoŋto bend; to be bent; be bent
3Proto-Athabaskan*qʊ̓nʼfire

via Thai ฉ้อ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiฉ้อto cheat, defraud, swindle

Words derived from “ฉ้อโกง”

Every word from Proto-Athabaskan *qʊ̓nʼ →Every word from Proto-Mon-Khmer koŋ →Every word from Thai โกง →