Talk:Mekong

The correct name origin of the Mekong river.
The Mekong gets its English name from Khmer: មេគង្គ Mékôngk.[1] មេ /mee/me/ means mother[2] and គង្គ /kʊəŋkeaʔ/Kong/ means Ganga.[3] The literal meaning of “Mekong” is “Mother Ganga”. Kong is a borrowing into Khmer language of the Sanskrit word “Ganga”. The Mekong is named after Hindu Godess Ganga, the name sake of the river Ganges. 2601:601:1B80:8040:4F77:9D09:6CAD:B0D6 (talk) 09:52, 19 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Source? I see this has been a bit of a running battle back and forth with adding this in, but currently unsourced. 80.193.211.174 (talk) 14:30, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
 * University of Wisconsin Sealang.net SouthEast Asian language project dictionary is the source. 2601:601:1B80:8040:45D:8E32:44BD:7B (talk) 22:12, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
 * http://www.sealang.net/library/
 * SEAlang is a collaborative effort between CRCL and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS). 2601:601:1B80:8040:A301:CFA6:A5DA:8EB5 (talk) 15:17, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
 * How can it give information about a word's etymology? And there are also Thai and Lao definitions on the same site you provided. (TH) (LA) 183.88.33.147 (talk) 16:41, 3 December 2023 (UTC)