Where does “พวกเรา” come from?

พวกเรา (Thai) comes from Thai พวก, from Old Khmer vvak.

พวกเรา (Thai): we; us; all of us

Definitions

  1. we; us; all of us

Ancestry of “พวกเรา”, step by step

พวกเรา traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Thai พวก

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiพวกgroup; party
2Old Khmervvak—

via Thai เรา

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiเราa first person plural/singular pronoun employed...
2Proto-Tairawᴬfirst person plural pronoun; we
Every word from Old Khmer vvak →Every word from Thai พวก →