Where does “ไม้พาย” come from?

ไม้พาย (Thai) comes from Thai พาย, from English Pi, from Ancient Greek πῖ, from Ancient Greek πεῖ, from Proto-Semitic pay- — the mouth.

ไม้พาย (Thai): paddle

Definitions

  1. paddle

Ancestry of “ไม้พาย”, step by step

ไม้พาย traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Thai พาย

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiพายpaddle; oar; to row; pie
2EnglishPiThe sixteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek
3Ancient GreekπῖAlternative form of πεῖ
4Ancient Greekπεῖpi, the name for the sixteenth letter Π, π of the...
5Proto-Semiticpay-the mouth

via Thai ไม้

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Thaiไม้wood; stick; log; tree; plant; mark
2Proto-Tai*mwajꟲ
Every word from Proto-Semitic pay-
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