Thai

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Etymology

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From Old Khmer ʼañ, ʼaññ, ʼaña (a first person singular pronoun; a pronoun impersonal, deferential, or attributive to personal names and titles), corresponding to Modern Khmer អញ (ʼañ, a first person pronoun used when addressing a person of lower status, person of intimacy, etc) + khñuṃ, kñuṃ, khñuṃma, khñuṃmma, khñuma, khñaṃ, khñaṃma, khñama (servant; slave), corresponding to Modern Khmer ខ្ញុំ (khñom, a formal first person pronoun; servant, slave). Cognate with Modern Khmer អញខ្ញុំ (ʼɑñkhñom, a formal first person pronoun).

Pronunciation

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Orthographicอัญขยม
ɒ ạ ɲ kʰ y m
Phonemic
อัน-ขะ-หฺยม
ɒ ạ n – kʰ a – h ̥ y m
RomanizationPaiboonan-kà-yǒm
Royal Institutean-kha-yom
(standard) IPA(key)/ʔan˧.kʰa˨˩.jom˩˩˦/(R)

Pronoun

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อัญขยม (an-kà-yǒm)

  1. (elegant, archaic, chiefly literary or poetic) used as a first person pronoun.
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