Where does “นกเป็ดผี” come from?

นกเป็ดผี (Thai) comes from Thai นก, from English Nuuk, from Danish Nuuk, from Greenlandic Nuuk, from Greenlandic nuuk — cape.

นกเป็ดผี (Thai): grebe

Definitions

  1. grebe

Ancestry of “นกเป็ดผี”, step by step

นกเป็ดผี traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Thai นก

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiนกbird; to be ignored or refused by a person; to...
2EnglishNuuk
3DanishNuuk
4GreenlandicNuuk
5Greenlandicnuukcape

via Thai เป็ด

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiเป็ดduck: bird of the family Anatidae; the plant...
2Proto-Southwestern Tai*petᴰˢ²
3Proto-Taipitᴰduck

via Thai ผี

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiผีdeity; god; dead body; corpse; remains; ghost;...
2Proto-Taipriːᴬspirit
Every word from Greenlandic nuukEvery word from Greenlandic NuukEvery word from Danish Nuuk