wordขัว khua
ขัว · khua
Erebusso. · CC BY-SA 3.0| Script | ขัว |
|---|---|
| RTGS | khua |
| Sound | /kʰǔa/ |
| Standard Thai | สะพาน saphan |
| Meaning | bridge |
| Example | ขัวเหล็ก — Khua Lek — the Iron Bridge over the Ping |
What it is
The Lanna word for a bridge, and the one the Iron Bridge is known by. A driver hears saphan on the signs and khua from the passengers.
It is in a gate name on the 1931 city map: ประตูขัวก้อม, Kua Kom Gate, the gate of the short bridge, on the outer wall's line southeast of the square. A Kam Mueang word for a bridge, printed on an official sheet, in 1931.
Root
ขัว khua — Tai root, cognate with Lao ຂົວ khua and Shan; standard Thai saphan is from Khmer spean. Khua Lek, the Iron Bridge, keeps the northern word in a name everyone in the city uses.
Connected to
- Khua Lek, the Iron Bridge The bridge everyone calls by this word.
- The 1931 city map Where the gate is named.
Named here by
- Khua Lek, the Iron Bridge The word.
- Nawarat Bridge The word.
- The 1931 city map Kua Kom Gate is on it.
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