Where does “ไพ่นกกระจอก” come from?

ไพ่นกกระจอก (Thai) comes from Thai นก, from English Nuuk, from Danish Nuuk, from Greenlandic Nuuk, from Greenlandic nuuk — cape.

ไพ่นกกระจอก (Thai): mahjong

Definitions

  1. mahjong

Ancestry of “ไพ่นกกระจอก”, step by step

ไพ่นกกระจอก traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Thai นก

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiนกbird; to be ignored or refused by a person; to...
2EnglishNuuk
3DanishNuuk
4GreenlandicNuuk
5Greenlandicnuukcape

via Thai ไพ่

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiไพ่playing cards
2Middle Chinese

via Thai กระจอก

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiกระจอกsparrow
Every word from Greenlandic nuukEvery word from Greenlandic NuukEvery word from Danish Nuuk