คลอง

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Thai

Etymology

Borrowed from Angkorian Old Khmer *គ្លង៑ (*gloṅ), *ឃ្លង៑ (*ghloṅ, passage, way; waterway). Cognate with Northern Thai ᨣᩖᩬᨦ, ᨣᩬᨦ, Isan คลอง, คอง, Lao ຄອງ (khǭng), ᦅᦸᧂ (koang). Also extended as Thai ครรลอง.

Schuessler (2007) relates this word to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kl(j)u(ŋ/k) (river; valley), whence (OC *kroːŋ, “river”), (OC *kloːɡ, “valley”), Tibetan ཀླུང (klung, river), Burmese ချောင်း (hkyaung:, stream). STEDT notes that this does not account for the *-n coda.

Pronunciation

Orthographicคลอง
g l ɒ ŋ
Phonemic
คฺลอง
g ̥ l ɒ ŋ
RomanizationPaiboonklɔɔng
Royal Institutekhlong
(standard) IPA(key)/kʰlɔːŋ˧/(R)

Noun

คลอง (klɔɔng) (classifier สาย or เส้น)

  1. watercourse, either natural or artificial.
  2. (anatomy) canal.
  3. (archaic) way; manner.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: khlong