Where does “โก๋” come from?
โก๋ (Thai) comes from Thai จิ๊กโก๋, from English gigolo, from French gigolo, from French gigolette, from French giguer, from French gigue, from Old French gige, from Frankish gīge.
โก๋ (Thai): a kind of Chinese dessert, made of glutinous rice flour and sugar, pressed into a mold
Definitions
- a kind of Chinese dessert, made of glutinous rice flour and sugar, pressed into a mold
Ancestry of “โก๋”, step by step
โก๋ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Thai จิ๊กโก๋
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thai | จิ๊กโก๋ | undisciplined teenager |
| 2 | English | gigolo | A man who has a sexual relationship with a woman... |
| 3 | French | gigolo | gigolo |
| 4 | French | gigolette | shoulder of rabbit or thigh of poultry; young... |
| 5 | French | giguer | to dance the jig; to dance, gambol, prance,... |
| 6 | French | gigue | string instrument, roughly in the form of a... |
| 7 | Old French | gige | — |
| 8 | Frankish | gīge | dance, fiddle |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | gīganą | to move, wish, desire |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | gʰeyǵʰ- | — |
via Chinese 糕
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese | 糕 | — |