가시나무

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Korean

Pronunciation

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?gasinamu
Revised Romanization (translit.)?gasinamu
McCune–Reischauer?kasinamu
Yale Romanization?kasinamu

Etymology 1

가시 (gasi, “thorn”) +‎ 나무 (namu, “tree”). First attested in the Worin seokbo (月印釋譜 / 월인석보), 1459, as Middle Korean 가ᄉᆡ나ᇚ (Yale: kasoy-namk).

Noun

가시나무 • (gasinamu)

  1. a thorny tree or shrub
가시나무 (gasinamu, Q. myrsinifolia)

Etymology 2

First attested in 1794 in the Joseon Veritable Records as 哥舒木 (“gaseo tree”), in a Chinese character-based orthography.

No obvious Koreanic source exists. Probably an ancient borrowing from a Japonic form related to Modern Japanese 樫 (kashi, “evergreen oak”), which has a natively Japonic etymology in Old Japanese かたし (katasi), Modern Japanese 堅い (katai, “firm; resolute”), ultimately from Proto-Japonic *kata (“hard”). The final element is most likely 나무 (namu, “tree, wood”).

Despite some popular confusion in Korea, Q. myrsinifolia is totally thornless.

Noun

가시나무 • (gasinamu)

  1. Quercus myrsinifolia, a species of evergreen oak tree native to Korea and other East Asian countries.
    Synonym: 가시목 (gasimok)
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