Unnumbered source etymology
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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryFormer name of Thailand: a country in Southeast Asia.
Borrowed from Portuguese Sciam (“Thailand”), from Thai สยาม (sà-yǎam, “Siam, historical name”) (see there for more hypotheses), the same root as Shan and probably Assam.
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