Where does “เอเชียน้อย” come from?

เอเชียน้อย (Thai) comes from Thai เอเชีย, from English Asia, from Middle English Asia, from Latin Āsia, from Ancient Greek Ἀσία, from Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀯𐀹𐀊, from Hittite 𒀸𒋗𒉿 — northwest Anatolia.

เอเชียน้อย (Thai): Asia Minor

Definitions

  1. Asia Minor

Ancestry of “เอเชียน้อย”, step by step

เอเชียน้อย traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Thai เอเชีย

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1ThaiเอเชียAsian
2EnglishAsiaA daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, the wife of the Titan Iapetus, and mother of Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus and Menoetius
3Middle EnglishAsia
4LatinĀsiaA kind of rye
5Ancient GreekἈσίαAsia Minor; Asia; Asia
6Mycenaean Greek𐀀𐀯𐀹𐀊an ethnonym for a Lydian; an epithet of the...
7Hittite𒀸𒋗𒉿northwest Anatolia

via Thai น้อย

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiน้อยlittle, few; small; a little, a few
2Proto-Tai*noːjꟲ
Every word from Hittite 𒀸𒋗𒉿Every word from Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀯𐀹𐀊Every word from Ancient Greek Ἀσία