Where does “นาคปรก” come from?

นาคปรก (Thai) comes from Thai นาค, from Pali nāga, from Sanskrit नाग, from Proto-Indo-European nogʷós — bare, naked; naked, bare; naked, nude.

นาคปรก (Thai): the event during the life of Gautama Buddha, taking place four weeks after he began meditating under the Bodhi Tree, in which a nāga named Mucalinda came up from beneath the earth to protect the Buddha from a prodigious rain with its hood

Definitions

  1. the event during the life of Gautama Buddha, taking place four weeks after he began meditating under the Bodhi Tree, in which a nāga named Mucalinda came up from beneath the earth to protect the Buddha from a prodigious rain with its hood

Ancestry of “นาคปรก”, step by step

นาคปรก traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Thai นาค

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiนาคpostulant: person seeking admission into a...
2Palināgacobra; elephant; ironwood tree
3Sanskritनागa snake, especially Coluber naga; a naga or...
4Proto-Indo-Europeannogʷósbare, naked; naked, bare; naked, nude

via Thai ปรก

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiปรก
Every word from Proto-Indo-European nogʷósEvery word from Sanskrit नागEvery word from Pali nāga
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