Where does “ลูกจ้าง” come from?

ลูกจ้าง (Thai) comes from Thai ลูก, from Proto-Tai lɯ:kᴰ — child.

ลูกจ้าง (Thai): employee

Definitions

  1. employee

Ancestry of “ลูกจ้าง”, step by step

ลูกจ้าง traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Thai ลูก

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiลูกball; round object; fruit; subordinate; person of...
2Proto-Tailɯ:kᴰchild

via Thai จ้าง

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiจ้างplain zongzi; to hire; to employ
2Hokkien粽—
Every word from Proto-Tai lɯ:kᴰ →Every word from Thai ลูก →