wordเวียง wiang
เวียง · wiang
Rinto Jiang · Public domain| Script | เวียง |
|---|---|
| RTGS | wiang |
| Sound | /wiaŋ/ |
| Standard Thai | เมือง (ที่มีกำแพง) mueang |
| Meaning | a walled town; the old city inside the moat |
| Example | ในเวียง — nai wiang — inside the walls |
What it is
The word for the walled city, and the word this site uses for the square inside the moat. The rest of Chiang Mai is mueang; the square is wiang.
The 1945 city sheet labels the water KHU WIANG (Moat) on all four sides, which is this word doing its work on an official map: the square is the wiang, and the ditch belongs to it.
Root
เวียง wiang — Tai root shared with Lao ວຽງ (Vientiane is Wiang Chan). Mueang is the polity; wiang is the fortified place inside it. 'Nai wiang', inside the wiang, is how the old city is said.
Connected to
- The moat What surrounds it.
- The 1945 city map Where it is written.
Named here by
- The 1945 city map And with this one.
- เจียงใหม่ chiang mai What chiang means.
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