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This is why they're listed as "Etymology 1" and "Etymology 2": having different origins (etymologies). This is called '동음이의어' in Korean, or 'homonyms' in English. …

Technically it isn't itself the etymology of the word, but an indication of single use in a corpus. … Determining an etymology needs extensive researches, but majority of 15th-century Korean literature written in 한문 are not telling much about how the Korean words that time are used in practice. …

Most of the Korean Hanja readings are directly related to the Middle Chinese pronunciations/Qieyun rimes. But this one is a classical example of a 와음 현상. 秒 should be "묘" by principle, but people misre …

The other two answers provide partial insight, but not the whole story. Let me combine those two and provide some more background. 언니 was indeed used to refer to a male's older brother as well, as @ji …

The etymology page of the National Institute of Korean Language's site explains that 마찬가지 is a shortened form of 마치 한가지. ‘마찬가지’라는 단어는 옛 문헌에서 발견되지 않는다. 사전으로서는 <조선어사전>(1938)에서 처음으로 확인된다. …

It is related to 헤다 "to swim" by etymology: 헤다 "to swim" + -옴 (Middle Korean gerund suffix) > Middle Korean 헤욤 "swimming" > Early Modern Korean 헤염 > Modern Korean 헤엄 치다 (Middle Korean 티다) is a delexical …

Japanese verbs have the same form whether predicative or attributive. (The only exception is the copula, which is da or desu when used predicatively and na when used attributively.) However, this is n …

This shortening(지 않다 -> 잖다, 하지 않다 -> 찮다) is not general, and a lot of people don't even recognize that they're shortened forms. When shortening 귀하지 않다 to 귀찮다, it effectively altered the meaning(major …

AFAIK, this is as far back as you can go. Korean is linguistically regarded as a language isolate, which has no sister languages anywhere else in the world. The comparative method, which is used for r …

Using ㅍ for all /f/ sounds is the standard, and should be preferred. Using 후/호 for /f/ sounds comes from Japanese. Japanese doesn't have /f/, rather they have /ɸ/. So they use /ɸ/ for transliterating …

According to the National Institute of Korean Language's etymology page, 날개 comes from -+-개, which is 다(to fly, Modern 날다) + -개(suffix meaning "a tool to do such action"). … The etymology page explains: 아마도 동의어 ‘날개’와의 경쟁에서 밀려나 특정 지역에 국한되어 쓰이고 있는 것이 아닌가 한다. …

Short answer: You can write "bzach" using English letters, and pronounce it, but such a syllable is nowhere to be found in the language. There are plenty of such "gaps", but generally, most of them ar …