Where does “ราชอาณาจักรไทย” come from?
ราชอาณาจักรไทย (Thai) comes from Thai ราชอาณาจักร, from Thai อาณาจักร, from Thai จักร, from Sanskrit चक्र, from Pali vatti, from German Watt, from Middle Low German wat, from Old Saxon hwat — who.
Ancestry of “ราชอาณาจักรไทย”, step by step
ราชอาณาจักรไทย traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Thai ราชอาณาจักร
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thai | ราชอาณาจักร | kingdom |
| 2 | Thai | อาณาจักร | kingdom; territory; realm; domain; dominion;... |
| 3 | Thai | จักร | wheel, circle, disk, discus; gear; chakra |
| 4 | Sanskrit | चक्र | the wheel; a potter's wheel; a discus or sharp... |
| 5 | Pali | vatti | to say |
| 6 | German | Watt | intertidal zone, foreshore, especially the vast... |
| 7 | Middle Low German | wat | what |
| 8 | Old Saxon | hwat | what; lo!, what!, indeed! |
| 9 | Proto-West Germanic | hwat | what |
| 10 | Proto-Germanic | hwat | nominative/accusative singular neuter of *hwaz |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷód | what |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | kʷós | who |