wordคู khu
คู · khu
Hartmann Linge · CC BY-SA 4.0| Script | คู |
|---|---|
| RTGS | khu |
| Sound | /kʰuː/ |
| Standard Thai | คูเมือง khu mueang |
| Meaning | moat; ditch |
| Example | รอบคูเมือง — rop khu mueang — around the moat; the ring road on its banks |
What it is
The moat, and by extension the roads on its banks. 'Rop khu' is the loop.
The 1931 and 1945 city sheets both label it คูเวียง, khu wiang, the ditch of the walled town, rather than khu mueang. Two official maps fourteen years apart agree, and usage on the ground today has drifted to khu mueang.
Root
คู khu — Tai root, a dug channel. Khu mueang, the city ditch, is the moat; the same word in Bangkok, but there is only one khu that matters here.
Connected to
- The moat loop The roads on it.
- The 1931 city map Labels it khu wiang.
- The 1945 city map Labels it khu wiang.
Named here by
- The 1931 city map It labels the moat with this word.
- The 1945 city map It labels the moat with this word.
- The moat The word.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | tradition | พจนานุกรมล้านนา–ไทย — Moradok Lanna | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, in the northern register where it fits; not machine-translated |
Sources
- พจนานุกรมล้านนา–ไทย — Moradok Lanna
- Northern Thai language — Wikipedia (en)
- Wikimedia Commons — the map and photograph files, each with its own licence on its file page — Wikimedia Commons
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