{
 "id": "hom",
 "type": "word",
 "names": {
  "name": "ฮ่อม hom",
  "th": "ฮ่อม",
  "rtgs": "hom"
 },
 "region": [
  "lanna"
 ],
 "etymology": {
  "root": "ฮ่อม hom — a Kam Mueang word with no Bangkok cognate in this sense; standard Thai borrows soi from the verb 'to slice' and trok from Khmer. Kam Mueang keeps initial /h/ where Bangkok has /r/ or nothing: ฮ่อม, ฮ้าน (shop, ร้าน), ฮัก (love, รัก).",
  "tier": "tradition"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "The Lanna word for an alley. Where a Bangkok address says soi, the old city said hom, and a few lanes still carry it in their names. This site uses it for the whole class of lanes between houses, which is where most of the city's road-kilometres are."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "คำเมืองสำหรับซอย ที่อยู่แบบกรุงเทพว่าซอย เวียงเก่าว่าฮ่อม และยังมีบางฮ่อมที่ชื่อติดอยู่ คำนี้ใช้บนเว็บนี้แทนตางแคบระหว่างบ้านทั้งหมด ซึ่งเป็นตี้กิโลเมตรถนนส่วนใหญ่ของเมืองอยู่"
 },
 "word": {
  "th": "ฮ่อม",
  "rtgs": "hom",
  "ipa": "/hɔ̂ːm/",
  "standard": "ซอย · ตรอก",
  "standard_rtgs": "soi · trok",
  "gloss": "a narrow lane between houses",
  "gloss_th": "ทางแคบระหว่างบ้าน",
  "example": "ฮ่อมโพธิ์",
  "example_gloss": "Hom Pho — the Bodhi-tree lane; a lane name still on the map"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "hom-the-lane",
   "as": "The lanes themselves.",
   "rel": "lane"
  },
  {
   "to": "soi",
   "as": "The Bangkok word.",
   "rel": "word"
  }
 ],
 "tags": [
  "lanna"
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:moradok-lanna-dict",
  "s:wp-northern-thai",
  "s:thwp-soi"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "tradition",
   "source": "s:moradok-lanna-dict"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, in the northern register where it fits; not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "schema": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-21",
 "images": [
  {
   "file": "hom/hom-soi-in-chiang-mai.jpg",
   "source": "commons",
   "title": "File:Soi in Chiang Mai.JPG",
   "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Soi_in_Chiang_Mai.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original",
   "page_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASoi_in_Chiang_Mai.JPG",
   "license": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
   "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/",
   "author": "Adbar",
   "credit": "Own work",
   "alt": "A soi in Chiang Mai (Moonmuang Soi 9).",
   "date": "2013-04-27 16:39:05",
   "primary": true,
   "sha256": "c4c4603cbf6d8f910ace9172433ba8c66b6ed512e86884d89495017662253e5c"
  }
 ],
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "hom-the-lane",
   "type": "lane",
   "name": "The hom",
   "as": "The word."
  },
  {
   "from": "soi",
   "type": "word",
   "name": "ซอย soi",
   "as": "The northern word."
  }
 ]
}