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to receive the results of good deeds from past lives; (of wealthy persons) to live off old wealth, e.g. inheritance [1] กินปูนร้อนท้อง: kin pun ron thong: eat lime, feel the belly burn: to act conspicuously (for fear of one's deeds being revealed) [1] กินรังแตน: kin rang taen: eat a wasp nest: to be ...
Thai honorifics date back to the Sukhothai Kingdom, a period which lasted from 1238 to 1420 CE. [2] During the Sukhothai period, honorifics appeared in the form of kinship terms . [ 3 ] The Sukhothai period also saw the introduction of many Khmer and Pali loanwords to Thai.
Thai จันทร์ (spelled chanthr but pronounced chan /tɕān/ because the th and the r are silent) "moon" (Sanskrit चन्द्र chandra) Thai phonology dictates that all syllables must end in a vowel, an approximant, a nasal, or a voiceless plosive. Therefore, the letter written may not have the same pronunciation in the initial ...
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There are some Thai words which are transcribed into equivalent characters of Thai language e.g. format ฟอร์แมท (f-ฟ o-อ r-ร m-ม a-แ t-ต), lesbian เลสเบียน (l-ล e-เ s-ส b-บ ia-เอีย n-น) etc. These words are transcribed with rules made by the Royal Institute.
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Thai on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Thai in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.
It uses ng for /ŋ/, as in English. It uses ch for /tɕʰ/ and /tɕ/, somewhat like English. It uses y for /j/, as in English. Final consonants are transcribed according to pronunciation, not Thai orthography. Vowels are transcribed in the position in the word where they are pronounced, not as in Thai orthography.
The international standard ISO 11940 is a transliteration system, preserving all aspects of written Thai adding diacritics to the Roman letters. Its extension ISO 11940-2 defines a simplified transcription reflecting the spoken language. It is almost identical to RTGS. Libraries in English-speaking countries use the ALA-LC Romanization.