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Early Modern Korean
Etymology
ᄀᆞ로 (kolwo, “horizontally”) + 디다 (tita, “to fall”), from Middle Korean ᄀᆞᄅᆞ디다 (kolo tita). “To die an unnatural death” is a calque of Chinese 橫死 / 横死 (hèngsǐ, literally “to die horizontally”).
Pronunciation
Verb
ᄀᆞ로디다 (kolwotita) (infinitive ᄀᆞ로디여, sequential ᄀᆞ로디니)
- to die an unnatural death
- Antonym: 셰디다 (syeytita)
1812, “Song 218”, in 청구영언 장서각본/靑丘永言藏書閣本 :ᄀᆞ로지나 셰지나 中에 죽은 後ㅣ면 뉘 아더냐 / 나 죽은 무덤 우희 밧츨 가나 논을 ᄆᆡ나 - Kolwocina syeycina CYWUNG-ey cwukun HWU-ymyen nwuy atenya / na cwukun mwutem wuh-uy pasch-ul kana nwon-ul moyna
- Whether I die before my time or of old age, who will remember me when I am gone? Over my grave, shall they will plow their fields, or weed their paddies of rice
Adjective
ᄀᆞ로디다 (kolwotita) (infinitive ᄀᆞ로디여, sequential ᄀᆞ로디니)
- to be laid out horizontally
Descendants