Where does “เข็มยาว” come from?
เข็มยาว (Thai) comes from Thai ยาว, from Thai กว่า, from Thai ปาก, from Thai กา, from Thai กากบาท, from Thai บาท, from Pali pāda, from Sanskrit पाद — to walk, to step; to stumble, to fall.
เข็มยาว (Thai): minute hand (of a clock or watch)
Definitions
- minute hand (of a clock or watch)
Ancestry of “เข็มยาว”, step by step
เข็มยาว traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Thai ยาว
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thai | ยาว | long |
| 2 | Thai | กว่า | away; off |
| 3 | Thai | ปาก | mouth; brim |
| 4 | Thai | กา | crow; teapot; to make or write a cross symbol |
| 5 | Thai | กากบาท | cross symbol; plus symbol; Thai fourth tone mark |
| 6 | Thai | บาท | priest; foot; an honorific for or term of address... |
| 7 | Pali | pāda | foot; foot of a mountain; foot of a verse; a... |
| 8 | Sanskrit | पाद | the foot; the foot or leg of an inanimate object,... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-Aryan | pā́ts | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | pā́ts | foot |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | pṓds | foot |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | póds | foot |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | ped- | to walk, to step; to stumble, to fall |
via Thai เข็ม
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thai | เข็ม | needle. (classifier: เล่ม) |
| 2 | Thai | ใน | in; inside; within; amidst; into; on; at; during;... |
| 3 | Thai | มหาสมุทร | ocean |
| 4 | Thai | สมุทร | sea |
| 5 | Sanskrit | समुद्र | the sea; ocean |
| 6 | Sanskrit | सम्- | with, together with, along with, together,... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-Iranian | sam- | together, joint, paired |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | sem- | together, one |