Where does “อย่างไร” come from?

อย่างไร (Thai) comes from Thai อย่าง, from Middle Chinese 樣.

อย่างไร (Thai): how? what? in what manner? in what way? by what means?

Definitions

  1. how? what? in what manner? in what way? by what means?

Ancestry of “อย่างไร”, step by step

อย่างไร traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Thai อย่าง

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiอย่างvariety; style; pattern; kind; sort; type
2Middle Chinese樣—

via Thai ไร

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiไรhow; what; which; when; why; what; approximate;...
2Thaiใครwho; which person; what person?
Every word from Middle Chinese 樣 →Every word from Thai อย่าง →