Thai

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Pali sukhī or Sanskrit सुखी (sukhī); it is not known in which script s was replaced by ś.

Pronunciation

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Orthographicศุขี
ɕ u kʰ ī
Phonemic
สุ-ขี
s u – kʰ ī
RomanizationPaiboonsù-kǐi
Royal Institutesu-khi
(standard) IPA(key)/su˨˩.kʰiː˩˩˦/(R)

Noun

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ศุขี (sù-kǐi)

  1. obsolete spelling of สุขี (sù-kǐi).

References

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  • Jean-Baptiste Palleɡoix (1854) Dictionarium linguae Thaĭ sive Siamensis interpretatione Latina, Gallica et Anɡlica illustratum (overall work in Latin), Paris, page 758
  • E.B. Michell (1892) Siamese-English Dictionary (overall work in English), Bangkok, page 257