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Originally 𠳋, an ideogrammic compound (會意/会意) in the oracle bone script: two 又 (“hand”) in a configuration of commanding + 𠂤 (“army”) – “to send; to dispatch”.
The 辵 component was later added in some bronze inscriptions, which is retained in the modern glyph.
As life and death's paths are present here, my way is blocked . And you have not finished saying the words "I depart", and you are departing?
Reconstruction notes
Generally reconstructed as *-kwo, because the Old Korean suffix corresponds exactly to the Middle (and Modern) Korean verbal suffix 고 (go) and because fifteenth-century Idu texts use 遣 to transcribe what by this point is clearly Middle Korean 고 (Yale: kwo). However, it is difficult to explain what sound shifts could have produced Middle Korean out of an Old Korean morpheme whose phonetic value was presumably similar to the character 遣 (Old Chinese *ʰeʔ, Middle Chinese *kʰiᴇn).
김지오 [gimjio] (2019) “고대국어 연결 어미의 현황과 과제 [godaegugeo yeon'gyeol eomiui hyeonhwanggwa gwaje, The conditions and research tasks for Old Korean connective suffixes]”, in Gugyeol Yeon'gu, volume 43, →DOI, pages 55–87