ตรีโกณมิติ /dtree·gohn·mí·dtì:/ is *not* an English loan word

[Sopit Suwan]

We added a note about the etymology of ตรีโกณมิติ /dtree·gohn·mí·dtì:/ trigonometry [subject/field วิชา /wí·chaa/]

Note: From ตรีโกณ (“triangle”) +‎ มิติ (mí-dtì, “measurement”); Not a loanword but a phono-semantic matching of English trigonometry. *Source: Wiktionary

*Thank you K. Greg for correcting my spelling and grammar in this post.

 

[Admin]

I checked other dictionaries and both thailanguage.com and thai2english.com incorrectly state the word is a transliteration from English. Easy to assume that in this case.