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Etymology is the history of the origin of words and phrases.
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What is the correct etymology of 백정?
This is a loanword from Literary Chinese, attested as far back as the Sui dynasty, and subsequently quoted in the Kangxi Dictionary of 1710:
《北史·李敏傳》周宣帝謂樂平公主曰：敏何官。對曰：一白丁耳。又白民。
One of the meaning …
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Does Korean have native words corresponding to 형 and 동생?
In Middle Korean texts, 오누이 (with Middle Korean tone marks and spelling: 오〮누의〮) was equivalent to 'siblings' (now supplanted by the hanja-eo 남매).
This is equivalent to unattested *올 'brother' + a well …
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Etymology of 하십시오체 sentence endings
Your intuition is along the right track. The spelling of Middle Korean is well documented, and it was evidently a much more agglutinative language: in summary, it is descended from the Middle Korean - …
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Origin of dictionary form (-다)
The citation form of a verb is a particularly specific construct, tied to the requirements of a dictionary user. For inflecting languages such as Korean, it is very important that the user can deduce …
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What does 꿈치 in 팔꿈치/앞꿈치/뒤꿈치 mean?
According to the 역사정보 historical information section for 팔꿈치 of the Naver 국어 사전(Korean-Korean dictionary), translated here:
The modern standard Korean '팔꿈치' appears in 18th century documents as 'ᄑᆞᆯ굼 …
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How to spot English loanwords and Hanja words in a text?
I'd say "classical" hanja-eo (based on Middle Chinese eumhun readings) is quite easy to spot, although the accuracy is quite low. You've mentioned certain phonological and phonotactic features; there …
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