Where does “ผัดวันประกันพรุ่ง” come from?

ผัดวันประกันพรุ่ง (Thai) comes from Thai ประกัน, from Khmer ប្រកាន់, from Khmer កាន់, from Middle Chinese 干.

ผัดวันประกันพรุ่ง (Thai): to procrastinate

Definitions

  1. to procrastinate

Ancestry of “ผัดวันประกันพรุ่ง”, step by step

ผัดวันประกันพรุ่ง traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Thai ประกัน

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiประกันguarantee: someone or something that assures a...
2Khmerប្រកាន់to claim; to maintain; to adopt, to uphold; to...
3Khmerកាន់to hold, carry in the hand, grasp
4Middle Chinese

via Thai ผัดวัน

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiผัดวันto postpone, put off (for the day)
2Thaiวันday; daytime; today
3Sanskritवनa tree; a forest, wood, grove, thicket, quantity...
4Proto-Indo-Europeanwen-to wish for, desire, strive for, win, love; to...

via Thai พรุ่ง

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiพรุ่งtomorrow
2Proto-Tai*ɟm̩.rukᴰ
Every word from Middle Chinese Every word from Khmer កាន់Every word from Khmer ប្រកាន់