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wordทาง thang

ทาง · thang

Chiang Mai, Thailand: Railway water tank of Chiang Mai Railway StationCEphoto, Uwe Aranas · CC BY-SA 4.0
Scriptทาง
RTGSthang
Sound/tʰaːŋ/
Standard Thaiทาง thang
Meaningway, path, direction; in compounds, a road of a certain kind
Exampleทางลอด — thang lot — an underpass

What it is

The general word for a way, which the highway department uses for everything it builds: thang luang for a national highway, thang lot for an underpass, thang yok radap for an elevated road.

Root

ทาง thang — Tai root. Thang luang, the royal way, is a national highway; thang lot, the way under, is an underpass; thang khuen doi, the way up the mountain.

Traffic signs in Thailand: Working site (Photo taken at Chiang Mai University)
CEphoto, Uwe Aranas · CC BY-SA 4.0
* Original caption: Native bullock carts & ox yokes.
Uploader's caption: Ra-thae (Thai: ระแทะ), a traditional vehicle of Thailand.
Unknown author · Public domain
This picture is described as follows:
Original caption: "The use of elephants as vehicles for conveyance of military supplies and weaponry."
Office of the Prime Minister · Public domain

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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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