Where does “ชานกำแพง” come from?

ชานกำแพง (Thai) comes from Thai กำแพง, from Khmer កំពែង — wall.

ชานกำแพง (Thai): area or tract of land lying outside the wall of a polity and stretching out into the moat, often occupied as a harbour or as settlements outside the wall

Definitions

  1. area or tract of land lying outside the wall of a polity and stretching out into the moat, often occupied as a harbour or as settlements outside the wall

Ancestry of “ชานกำแพง”, step by step

ชานกำแพง traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Thai กำแพง

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiกำแพงwall
2Khmerកំពែងwall

via Thai ชาน

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiชานexternal area
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