Where does “ห้าแยก” come from?

ห้าแยก (Thai) comes from Thai ห้า, from Proto-Tai *haːꟲ, from Old Chinese 五.

ห้าแยก (Thai): five-way intersection

Definitions

  1. five-way intersection

Ancestry of “ห้าแยก”, step by step

ห้าแยก traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Thai ห้า

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiห้า5; five
2Proto-Tai*haːꟲfive
3Old Chinese五—

via Thai แยก

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiแยกto part: to sever, to break, to divide, to separate, to keep apart, etc
Every word from Old Chinese 五 →Every word from Proto-Tai *haːꟲ →Every word from Thai ห้า →