The Coinage of Agricultural Terms : A Study of Vocabulary Related to Thai Society From The Reign of King Chulalongkorn to Present Time.

Abstract

This research aimed 1)To study the development of the agricultural terms, 2)To study the
groups of the agricultural terms, and 3)To study the principles and the Guilding up and the meaning
of the agricultural terms. This study used descreptive analysis and qualitative method research. The
populations were the books called Rajakiccanupersha from King Rama V’s reign (2435 B.E.)-King Rama
IX (2500 B.E.) 1,000 editions of which were selected from the specified exemplary groups. The results
reveled that the development of the terms related to Thai society about 15 words. The groups of the
agricutural terms as follows : the group of cereal, the group of the field ploughing, the group of land,
and the general group. The principles and the Guilding up and the meaning of the agricultural terms
as follows : the compound words : noun+ noun = noun, noun + verb= noun, verb + noun=verb, verb
+verb=verb, noun +adverb=adverb, adverb+ noun =adverb, noun + noun + noun = noun, noun +adverb+
noun =verb, noun + noun +verb= noun, The overlapping word as follows : the overlapping for the meaning
and the overlapping for the sound. The repeated words as follow : to show the meaning of grammar
as the a Plural one, to add more weight to the meaning of the word, to add the weight to the
meaning of the words to lessen the weight of the meaning of the words reparately, to repeat the words
to inform the estimated or uncertain meanings, repetition of the words which were idioms, The smas
words as follow : Pali+Sanskit, Sanskit+Pali, Sanskit+Sanskit Pali+Pali. The Sonti words as follow :
Verval Sonti and Narikahit Sonti, the meaning as follows : the directmeaming, simile, and the context.