Reconstruction:Proto-Koreanic/kopoLi

This Proto-Koreanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

This Proto-Koreanic entry contains original research. The reconstruction in this entry is based on published research, but the specific form presented here is not found in prior works.

Proto-Koreanic

Noun

*kopoLi

town, district

Descendants

Baekje: 己富里 (*kopori) (?= *kəpəri)
Old Korean:
- Middle Korean: ᄀᆞ옳 (kowolh) (< *koWoLi-k(V))
  - Korean: 고을 (go'eul)
→ Old Japanese: 郡 (*KOPORI)
- Japanese: 郡 (kōri, archaic)

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

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