Where does “ลูกช้าง” come from?

ลูกช้าง (Thai) comes from Thai ช้าง, from Proto-Tai ɟaːŋᶜ — elephant.

ลูกช้าง (Thai): a first person pronoun employed when addressing a...

Definitions

  1. a first person pronoun employed when addressing a...

Ancestry of “ลูกช้าง”, step by step

ลูกช้าง traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Thai ช้าง

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiช้างelephant; bishop; great
2Proto-Taiɟaːŋᶜelephant

via Thai ลูก

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiลูกball; round object; fruit; subordinate; person of...
2Proto-Tailɯ:kᴰchild
Every word from Proto-Tai ɟaːŋᶜ →Every word from Thai ช้าง →