Northern Thai edit

Etymology edit

From Pali hetu (case, matter; cause, motive, reason; root; etc) or Sanskrit हेतु (hetu, idem).

Noun edit

เหตุ (transliteration needed)

  1. cause, reason

Pali edit

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

เหตุ m

  1. Thai script form of hetu
  2. Thai script (without implicit vowels) form of hetu

Declension edit

Declension with implicit vowels:

Declension without implicit vowels:

Thai edit

Etymology edit

From Pali hetu (case, matter; cause, motive, reason; root; etc) or Sanskrit हेतु (hetu, idem); possibly via Old Khmer hetu, *hetu (because; cause, reason; etc). Cognate with Lao ເຫດ, Modern Khmer ហេតុ (haet), Northern Thai ᩉᩮ᩠ᨲᩩ (hēt).

Pronunciation edit

Orthographicเหตุ
e h t u
Phonemic
เหด
e h ɗ
RomanizationPaiboonhèet
Royal Institutehet
(standard) IPA(key)/heːt̚˨˩/(R)

Noun edit

เหตุ (hèet)

  1. cause, factor; ground, reason.
  2. event; incident; situation; happening; occurrence; circumstance.
  3. (archaic) account; note; record.

Conjunction edit

เหตุ (hèet)

  1. because; because of.

Derived terms edit