Where does “ท่าดีทีเหลว” come from?

ท่าดีทีเหลว (Thai) comes from Thai ดี, from English Dee, from English do, from English ditto, from Italian ditto, from Italian detto, from Latin dictus, from Latin dīcō — limestone; chalk; the finish line.

ท่าดีทีเหลว (Thai): just looking competent or skilled, but lacking competence or skill in reality; unable to produce a good work as seemed to be

Definitions

  1. just looking competent or skilled, but lacking competence or skill in reality; unable to produce a good work as seemed to be

Ancestry of “ท่าดีทีเหลว”, step by step

ท่าดีทีเหลว traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Thai ดี

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiดีgallbladder; bile; good; on good terms; on a...
2EnglishDeeRiver Dee
3EnglishdoA syntactic marker
4EnglishdittoThat which was stated before, the aforesaid, the...
5Italianditto
6Italiandettopast participle of dire; past participle of...
7Latindictussaid, uttered; mentioned, spoken, having been...
8Latindīcōto say, talk, speak, utter, mention
9Latin-tiōtion, -ation, -ing
10Latindissertātiō(spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition
11Latindissertusarranged, disposed; explained
12Latindissereresecond-person singular future passive indicative...
13Latindis-asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;...
14Latincalceusshoe
15Latincalxlimestone; chalk; the finish line

via Thai ที

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiทีchance, occasion, opportunity, time; round, turn;...
2EnglishteeThe name of the Latin-script letter T; Something...
3Middle Englishteen
4Old Englishtēonto drag, draw, pull; to train, discipline; to...
5Old Englishtēohan
6Proto-West Germanicteuhanto pull; to lead
7Proto-Germanicteuhanąto lead; to pull behind oneself, draw, drag
8Proto-Indo-Europeandewk-to pull, to draw; to lead

via Thai ท่า

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiท่าport; pier; quay; posture; gesture
2Proto-Taidaːᴮriver
Every word from Latin calxEvery word from Latin -tiōEvery word from Latin dis-