Where does “ยาว” come from?
ยาว (Thai) comes from Thai กว่า, from Thai ปาก, from Thai กา, from Thai กากบาท, from Thai บาท, from Pali pāda, from Sanskrit पाद, from Proto-Indo-Aryan pā́ts — to walk, to step; to stumble, to fall.
ยาว (Thai): long
Ancestry of “ยาว”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Thai | กว่า | than, .er than; over, more than; by the time that |
| 2 | Thai | ปาก | mouth; brim |
| 3 | Thai | กา | crow; teapot; to make or write a cross symbol |
| 4 | Thai | กากบาท | cross symbol; plus symbol; Thai fourth tone mark |
| 5 | Thai | บาท | priest; foot; an honorific for or term of address... |
| 6 | Pali | pāda | foot; foot of a mountain; foot of a verse; a... |
| 7 | Sanskrit | पाद | the foot; the foot or leg of an inanimate object,... |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-Aryan | pā́ts | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | pā́ts | foot |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | pṓds | foot |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | póds | — |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ped- | to walk, to step; to stumble, to fall |