Where does “พอดี” come from?
พอดี (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.
พอดี (Thai): just right; fitting exactly; precisely; exactly;...
Definitions
- just right; fitting exactly; precisely; exactly;...
Ancestry of “พอดี”, step by step
พอดี traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Thai ดี
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thai | ดี | gallbladder; bile; good; on good terms; on a... |
| 2 | English | Dee | River Dee |
| 3 | English | do | A syntactic marker |
| 4 | English | ditto | That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the... |
| 5 | Italian | ditto | — |
| 6 | Italian | detto | past participle of dire; past participle of... |
| 7 | Latin | dictus | said, uttered; mentioned, spoken, having been... |
| 8 | Latin | dīcō | to say, talk, speak, utter, mention |
| 9 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 10 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 11 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 12 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 13 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 14 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 15 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
via Thai พอ
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thai | พอ | enough, sufficiently; when |