Where does “แดด” come from?

แดด (Thai) comes from Old Khmer dyān, from Thai เทียน, from Old Khmer dyan — candle.

แดด (Thai): sunlight; sunshine

Definitions

  1. sunlight; sunshine

Ancestry of “แดด”, step by step

แดด traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old Khmer dyān

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Khmerdyān—
2Thaiเทียนcandle; penis; touch-me-not: the plant,...
3Old Khmerdyancandle

via Proto-Tai C̥.dwiːtᴰ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-TaiC̥.dwiːtᴰsunshine

Words derived from “แดด”

Every word from Old Khmer dyan →Every word from Old Khmer dyān →Every word from Thai เทียน →