ตกลง

Thai

Etymology

ตก (dtòk, “to fall”) +‎ ลง (long, “to descend, put down”). The "agree" sense appears to be a semantic extension along the lines of "fall down into the same consensus".

Pronunciation

Orthographicตกลง
t k l ŋ
Phonemic
ตก-ลง
t k – l ŋ
RomanizationPaiboondtòk-long
Royal Institutetok-long
(standard) IPA(key)/tok̚˨˩.loŋ˧/(R)

Verb

ตกลง • (dtòk-long) (abstract noun การตกลง)

  1. to agree (to something)
  2. to fall (straight) down

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “ตกลง” in Thai Dictionary Project (TDP) (UC Berkeley 1964) (plus additional data from the Royal Institute of Thailand (RI) and NECTEC's LEXITRON project (LEX)). Searchable online at SEAlang.net.
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