고을

Korean

Etymology

First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean ᄀᆞ옳 (Yale: kòwòlh), from earlier *고ᄫᆞᆶ (Yale: *kòWòlh) preserved in an MK place name, from pre-MK */kòpòlh/, from Proto-Koreanic *kopoLi. Related to 시골 (sigol, “countryside”), from Middle Korean 스〮ᄀᆞᄫᆞᆯ (Yale: súkòWòl).

Possibly related to Baekje 己富里 (*kopori, “district”),[1] Goguryeo 忽 (*kuru/*kolo, “castle”),[2] and Japanese 郡 (kōri, “county, district”).

Pronunciation

(SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ko̞ɯɭ]
Phonetic hangul: [고을]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization^?	go'eul
Revised Romanization (translit.)^?	go'eul
McCune–Reischauer^?	koŭl
Yale Romanization^?	koul

South Gyeongsang (Busan) pitch accent: 고을의 / 고을에 / 고을까지
Syllables in red take high pitch. This word always takes high pitch only on the second syllable, except before consonant-initial multisyllabic suffixes, when it takes full low pitch.

Noun

고을 • (go'eul)

(usually historical) town, district

References

Vovin, Alexander (2013) “From Koguryo to T'amna”, in Korean Linguistics‎, volume 15, number 2 (PDF), John Benjamins Publishing Company, →DOI, pages 222-240
Lim, Byung-joon (1999) (A) Study on the borrowed writings of the dialect of Koguryo Dynasty in Ancient Korean (MA), Konkuk University

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

[1] Vovin, Alexander (2013) “From Koguryo to T'amna”, in Korean Linguistics‎, volume 15, number 2 (PDF), John Benjamins Publishing Company, →DOI, pages 222-240

[2] Lim, Byung-joon (1999) (A) Study on the borrowed writings of the dialect of Koguryo Dynasty in Ancient Korean (MA), Konkuk University