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Roads of Chiang Maiᨩ᩠ᨿᨦᩉ᩠ᨾᩲ᩵ EN ไทย

wordเจียงใหม่ chiang mai

เจียงใหม่ · chiang mai

View from Doi Suthep mountain over Chiang Mai city, northern ThailandThaimissions2006 at English Wikipedia · Public domain
Scriptเจียงใหม่
RTGSchiang mai
Sound/tɕiaŋ.màj/
Standard Thaiเชียงใหม่ chiang mai
MeaningChiang Mai, as the city says its own name
Tai Thamᨩ᩠ᨿᨦᩉ᩠ᨾᩲ᩵
Exampleเมืองเจียงใหม่ — mueang chiang mai — the city

What it is

The name, in the northern voice. The unaspirated initial is the first thing a listener notices, and the first thing this site's Thai pages do.

Root

เจียง chiang — a Tai word for a walled settlement, in Chiang Rai, Chiang Saen, Chiang Tung (Kengtung); ใหม่ mai, new. In Kam Mueang the initial is unaspirated, /tɕ/, so the city is Jiang Mai in its own mouth.

Connected to

Where each claim comes from
FieldTierSourceNote
defaulttraditionพจนานุกรมล้านนา–ไทย — Moradok Lanna
text_thinferencewritten in Thai by this project, in the northern register where it fits; not machine-translated

Sources

cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there

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