Medical Names Construction in the Medical Text of Wat Srikerd,Muang District,ChiangmaiProvince

Abstract

Medical Names Construction in the Medical Text of WatSrikerd, MuangDistrict, ChiangmaiProvince aimed to analyze structures and semantic constructionsof 235 medical names in WatSrikerd Medical Text, Muang District, ChiangmaiProvince. Findings showed that constructional names of the medical text consist of five types of structures; 1) two morphemes 2) three morphemes 3) four morphemes 4) five morphemes and 5) six morphemes. The medical names construction of three morphemes structure was found the most (111 names or 47.23 %), and the six morphemes structure was found the least (four names or 1.71 %). Two types of names constructions based on the kind of morphemes construction were found, 1) the construction of the same kind of free morphemes which found three subtypes such as noun - noun , noun - noun - noun , etc., 2) the construction of the different kind of free morphemes which found forty-five subtypes such as noun – verb , noun - verb - noun, etc. With regard to medical names construction of lexical meaning, the 226 medical names were the similar meaning as the meaning of the original morphemes and the nine medical names
were different meaning from the original morphemes. The findings reflected that medical names in the medical text of WatSrikerd, Muang District, Chiangmai Province, originated from the combining of atleast two free morphemes that mostly kept the semantic relation of each constituent morpheme. Keywords : Morpheme, Word Structure, Semantic relationship