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
- paddle
Ancestry of “ไม้พาย”, step by step
ไม้พาย traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Thai พาย
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thai | พาย | paddle; oar; to row; pie |
| 2 | English | Pi | The sixteenth letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets and the seventeenth in Old Greek |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | πῖ | Alternative form of πεῖ |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | πεῖ | pi, the name for the sixteenth letter Π, π of the... |
| 5 | Proto-Semitic | pay- | the mouth |