Where does “โจรสลัด” come from?

โจรสลัด (Thai) comes from Thai สลัด, from English salad, from Middle English salade, from Old French salade, from Italian salada, from Vulgar Latin salata, from Latin Salo, from Latin saliō — salt.

โจรสลัด (Thai): pirate

Definitions

  1. pirate

Ancestry of “โจรสลัด”, step by step

โจรสลัด traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Thai สลัด

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiสลัดsalad: tossed greens; pirate: sea robber; to...
2EnglishsaladA food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold...
3Middle Englishsaladesalad; An ingredient in a salad
4Old Frenchsalade
5Italiansalada
6Vulgar Latinsalatasalted
7LatinSalothat flows near Bilbilis and then into the Iberus, now the Jalón
8Latinsaliōto leap, jump, bound
9Latinsālsalt
10Proto-Italicsālssalt
11Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt

via Thai โจร

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiโจรthief
2Sanskritचोरthief, robber
3Sanskritचुर्to steal; to rob; to cause to disappear
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂lEvery word from Proto-Italic sālsEvery word from Latin sāl