Where does “แสร้งว่า” come from?

แสร้งว่า (Thai) comes from Thai ว่า, from Middle Chinese 話.

แสร้งว่า (Thai): a dipping sauce made of grilled shrimp flesh mixed with palm sugar, tamarind juice, lemon juice, fish sauce, pounded bird's eye chilies, and others

Definitions

  1. a dipping sauce made of grilled shrimp flesh mixed with palm sugar, tamarind juice, lemon juice, fish sauce, pounded bird's eye chilies, and others

Ancestry of “แสร้งว่า”, step by step

แสร้งว่า traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Thai ว่า

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiว่าto say, to speak, to tell; to utter, to...
2Middle Chinese

via Thai แสร้ง

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiแสร้งto intend; to intentionally or purposely do
Every word from Middle Chinese Every word from Thai ว่า