Where does “ถั่วฝักยาว” come from?
ถั่วฝักยาว (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.
ถั่วฝักยาว (Thai): yardlong bean (Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis)
Definitions
- yardlong bean (Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis)
Ancestry of “ถั่วฝักยาว”, step by step
ถั่วฝักยาว traces back through 3 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 |
via Thai ถั่ว
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thai | ถั่ว | legume; bean; pea; nut |
| 2 | Proto-Southwestern Tai | *tʰuəᴮ¹ | — |
| 3 | Middle Chinese | 豆 | bean |
via Thai ฝัก
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thai | ฝัก | sheath; pod; case; scabbard |