กระทิง

See also: กระทง

Thai
กระทิง

Etymology

Cognate with Lao ກະທິງ (ka thing).

Ultimately from Austroasiatic; compare Khmer ខ្ទីង (khtiing), Thin Khmu [script needed] (k(ə̆)tiɲ), Mon တလိၚ် (kəloiŋ), Khasi [script needed] (kyrtong, “bull, ox”), etc. from Proto-Mon-Khmer *Kdiiŋ ~ *Kdu()ŋ (“wild ox”).[1]

Pronunciation
Orthographicกระทิง
k r a d i ŋ
Phonemic
กฺระ-ทิง
k ̥ r a – d i ŋ
RomanizationPaiboongrà-ting
Royal Institutekra-thing
(standard) IPA(key)/kra˨˩.tʰiŋ˧/(R)

Noun

กระทิง • (grà-ting) (classifier ตัว)

  1. gaur.

Synonyms
  • เมย (məəi)

References
  1. Shorto, H. (2006). A Mon-Khmer Comparative Dictionary, Ed. Paul Sidwell. #577. p. 194
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