Thai edit

Etymology edit

Possibly from corruption of ขลาด (klàat), in the same manner as โขยง (kà-yǒong), a corrupted form of โขลง (klǒong).

Pronunciation edit

Orthographicขยาด
kʰ y ā ɗ
Phonemic
ขะ-หฺยาด
kʰ a – h ̥ y ā ɗ
RomanizationPaiboonkà-yàat
Royal Institutekha-yat
(standard) IPA(key)/kʰa˨˩.jaːt̚˨˩/(R)

Verb edit

ขยาด (kà-yàat) (abstract noun การขยาด or ความขยาด)

  1. to fear someone or something, especially because of having once suffered an unfavourable outcome resulted from that one or that thing.

Derived terms edit