khaan Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 When I was talking to a Monk today he wondered just what the origin was of the word เก้าอี้ for chair because he said very few words in Thai finish with the " êe " sound? He speculated that it was more of a Chinese style ending ? Just wondered if anybody here can concur on that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poanoi Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 Yes, it is chinese Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickBradford Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 Yes, it is chinese As, of course, is โต๊ะ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fire69water Posted December 1, 2011 Share Posted December 1, 2011 It is Chinese but not the standard Chinese or Mandarin. It is Teochew. Ditto for โต๊ะ(table), ซวย(unlucky), ก๋วยเตี๋ยว(rice noodles) and many others. Some of the Thai numbers sound Teochew. Unfortunately, หนึ่ง(one) sounds like two in Teochew and Hokkien. So my knee-jerk reaction is to think two when a Thai says one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khaan Posted December 1, 2011 Author Share Posted December 1, 2011 Thank you very much for all the informative and interesting replies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alvin80 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 these are also from แต้จิ๋ว: กระจั๊ว เฮง ลื้อ โจ๊ก เถ้าแก่ อาตี๋ / อาม่า / อาโก่งand a slew of many more อาs as we like to prefix them particularly in front of a nickname. Eg: ปู (อาป) / แหเียว ( อาแหเียว ) LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard W Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Some of the Thai numbers sound Teochew. Loans from Old or Middle Chinese, as in much of East Asia. สอง '2' apparently comes from a Chinese word meaning 'pair'. The origin of หนึ่ง '1' is unknown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonN Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 โจ๊ก You gotta be joking!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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