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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 ...
The Royal Thai General System of Transcription (RTGS) is the official [1] [2] system for rendering Thai words in the Latin alphabet. It was published by the Royal Institute of Thailand in early 1917, when Thailand was called Siam .
The Thai language has many borrowed words from mainly Sanskrit, Tamil, Pali and some Prakrit, Khmer, Portuguese, Dutch, certain Chinese dialects and more recently, Arabic (in particular many Islamic terms) and English (in particular many scientific and technological terms). Some examples as follows:
The new CFPB regulation would require large banks and credit unions to either charge just $5 for overdrafts or, alternatively, pick an amount no higher than the cost of offering overdraft protection.
An alleged Chinese spy who forged a close relationship with Prince Andrew has been identified by a British court, the latest twist in a case that has shone a light on Beijing’s influence inside ...
The Packers became the latest team join the postseason field thanks to Monday night's win. Here's the NFL playoff picture after Week 16.