When I asked my Thai teacher about เอ๋ย, she said that it didn’t really mean anything. That it was put in there to make the sentence flow better.

Not exactly like the Canadian ‘Ehhh?’ though…

Vocative, ablative, locative… time to dust off the ‘ole grammar in 2009.

Btw – Happy New Year everyone!

เอ๋ย eeuy [a sound expressing affection or politeness, used after a vocative by a man or woman]

So we need to think of it as expressing fondness and affection towards a chicken? Hmmm…”

Oooops … most recently I had a debate with my boss who thought that vocative is one of the 6 Latin cases. Pointing on the fact that Serbo-Croatian has an instrumental which is not an ablative … he admitted that the 5th case of Latin was locative but not vocative …

What has this to do with oei? Ko oei ko kai? Anyhow, the ko in this “memorizing” sentense is the only one which has a “vocative” but not a name. The kho has the name of khai, khuat, khwai, or khon, but not the sad and lonely ko oei (voca- but not locative).

K called K of egg? Sweet K named K of egg?

Btw… Thinking in German … easy to translate:

Ko heißt K vom Huhn. Das kho vom Ei ist in einem erschöpften Zustand …

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