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Jeju
Etymology
From Proto-Koreanic *katoL (“something forked or split from each other”).
Pronunciation
Noun
가달 (gadal)
- leg
Korean
Etymology
This word is part of a family of related terms with a core meaning of "split". The ancestral root form appears to have been *가ᄃᆞ *kato- or similar, with some forms undergoing intervocalic lenition and some not. Related forms include 갈래 (gallae, “strand, fork, division”), 가달 (gadal, “something split from each other”), 가닥 (gadak, “strand, long thin object”), and 가르다 (gareuda, “to split, to sort out”).
Pronunciation
| Romanizations |
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| Revised Romanization? | gadal |
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| Revised Romanization (translit.)? | gadal |
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| McCune–Reischauer? | kadal |
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| Yale Romanization? | katal |
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Noun
가달 • (gadal)
- a very ferocious person
- (originally Hamgyong, now North Korea) anything split from each other
- (Gangwon) branch
Synonyms
- (branch): (standard Korean) 가닥 (gadak)