열매

Korean

Etymology

From Early Modern Korean 열ᄆᆡ (yelmoy), 열매 (yelmay).

Displaced Middle Korean 여름〮 (yèlúm, “fruit”), a nominalization of 열〯다〮 (yěltá, “to ripen”), due to normal sound changes transforming 녀름〮 (nyèlúm, “summer”) into the homophone 여름 (yelum, “summer”).[1] From Old Korean 菓音 (*YELUm).

Pronunciation
  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [jʌ̹ɭmɛ] ~ [jʌ̹ɭme̞]
  • Phonetic hangul: [열매/열메]
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?yeolmae
Revised Romanization (translit.)?yeolmae
McCune–Reischauer?yŏlmae
Yale Romanization?yel.may

Noun

열매 • (yeolmae)

  1. (also figuratively) fruit

See also
  • 果 (gwa), 實 (sil), hanja for "fruit"

References
  1. “여름열매 [yeoreum-yeolmae]”, in 온라인가나다 [ollain'ganada]‎, 국립국어원 [gungnipgugeowon], 2016 May 16, archived from the original on 12 June 2020
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