Where does “สิ่งมีชีวิต” come from?

สิ่งมีชีวิต (Thai) comes from Thai มีชีวิต, from Thai มี, from English mi, from Middle English mi, from Middle English min, from Old English mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic mīnaz — to fix, to build fortifications or fences.

สิ่งมีชีวิต (Thai): organism

Definitions

  1. organism

Ancestry of “สิ่งมีชีวิต”, step by step

สิ่งมีชีวิต traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Thai มีชีวิต

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiมีชีวิตto live; to be alive
2Thaiมีto have; to own; to possess; to contain; to...
3EnglishmiA syllable used in sol-fa to represent the third...
4Middle EnglishmiFirst-person singular genitive determiner: my
5Middle EnglishminFirst-person singular genitive determiner: my;...
6Old Englishmīnmy, mine
7Proto-Germanic*mīn
8Proto-Germanicmīnazmy, mine; 1st person singular possessive
9Proto-Indo-Europeanméynosmy; mine
10Proto-Indo-Europeanmeito fix, to build fortifications or fences

via Thai สิ่ง

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiสิ่งthing
Every word from Proto-Indo-European mei