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Where does “ยี่สิบ” come from?

ยี่สิบ (Thai) comes from Thai ยี่, from Middle Chinese 二 — two.

ยี่สิบ (Thai): twenty

Definitions

  1. twenty

Ancestry of “ยี่สิบ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiยี่2; second; a year of the Tiger, the third year...
2Middle Chinese二two
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