Where does “วิกิตำรา” come from?

วิกิตำรา (Thai) comes from Thai วิกิ, from English wiki, from English WikiWikiWeb, from Hawaiian wikiwiki, from Hawaiian wiki, from Proto-Polynesian witi.

Ancestry of “วิกิตำรา”, step by step

วิกิตำรา traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Thai วิกิ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiวิกิwiki
2EnglishwikiA collaborative website which can be directly...
3EnglishWikiWikiWeb
4Hawaiianwikiwikispeedy
5Hawaiianwikihasten, speed up; be swift, speedy, quick
6Proto-Polynesianwiti

via Thai ตำรา

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiตำราedict; decree; command; ordinance; standard work...
2Old Khmerតំរាact of sealing; that which has been sealed
3Old Khmerត្រាseal, mark, stamp; to seal, to mark, to stamp;...
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