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See also: -갓-
U+AC13, 갓
HANGUL SYLLABLE GAS
Composition: + +

Hangul Syllables




→ 개

Jeju

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ka̠t̚/

Noun

(gat)

  1. wife
  2. woman

Korean

Etymology 1

First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean ᄀᆞᆺ (Yale: kos).

Pronunciation

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?gat
Revised Romanization (translit.)?gas
McCune–Reischauer?kat
Yale Romanization?kas

Adverb

(gat)

  1. just now; a moment ago
    Synonyms: (mak), 방금(方今) (banggeum)
    다녀갔어요.Gat danyeogasseoyo. has just been here.
    난아기gannanaginewborn (literally, “baby just now born”)
  2. just, barely; used to emphasize the newness of the state
    스무 gat seumu saljust twenty; barely twenty
Derived terms
  • 갓난아기 (gannanagi, newborn, infant, literally just-born baby)
  • 갓밝이 (gatbalgi, dawn, literally just-brightening)

Etymology 2

Korean Wikipedia has an article on:
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A mannequin wearing a gat.

First attested in the Hunminjeong'eum haerye (訓民正音解例 / 훈민정음해례), 1446, as Middle Korean 갇〮 (Yale: kát).

Pronunciation

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?gat
Revised Romanization (translit.)?gas
McCune–Reischauer?kat
Yale Romanization?kas

Noun

(gat)

  1. gat (a traditional Korean hat made of horsehair, once worn by married gentlemen)
    Synonym: 입자(笠子) (ipja)
  2. (mycology) pileus; cap of a mushroom
Derived terms
Descendants
  • English: gat, kat
  • Japanese: カッ (ka')
  • Russian: кат (kat)

Etymology 3

First attested in the Dong'ui bogam (東醫寶鑑 / 동의보감), 1613, as Early Modern Korean  (Yale: kas), plausibly an ancient pre-Sino-Korean borrowing from Old Chinese (OC *kreːds, “mustard plant”).[1] The Sino-Korean reading is (, gae).

Pronunciation

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?gat
Revised Romanization (translit.)?gas
McCune–Reischauer?kat
Yale Romanization?kas

Noun

(gat)

  1. mustard plant (Brassica juncea), or the grain thereof
Derived terms
  • 갓김치 (gatgimchi, kimchi made of mustard leaves)
  • 갓나물 (gannamul, mustard greens)

Etymology 4

First attested in the Daemyeongnyul jikhae (대명률직해 / 大明律直解) , 1395, in the hungaja form (literally branch), to be understood that this word is to be pronounced similarly to the Middle Korean word for "branch", (Yale: kac).

Pronunciation

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?gat
Revised Romanization (translit.)?gas
McCune–Reischauer?kat
Yale Romanization?kas

Noun

(gat)

  1. (archaic) plant reserve; area whose plants cannot be cut
Derived terms

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?gat
Revised Romanization (translit.)?gas
McCune–Reischauer?kat
Yale Romanization?kas

Counter

(gat)

  1. bundle of ten dried fish or herbs
    굴비 여섯 gulbi yeoseot gatsix bunches of dried croaker fish

Etymology 6

See the main entry; preserves the sibilant final (lenited to /z/ in Middle Korean and now fully lost in Seoul).

Pronunciation

  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key):
  • Phonetic hangul:
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?gat
Revised Romanization (translit.)?gas
McCune–Reischauer?kat
Yale Romanization?kās

Noun

(gat)

  1. (Gyeongsang, Chungcheong, Jeolla dialect) Dialectal form of (ga, edge, fringe)

Etymology 7

A hanja created in Korea to represent a syllable without Sino-Korean equivalent.

Syllable

(gat)

References

  1. ^ Laurent Sagart (1999) “The origin of Chinese tones”, in Proceedings of the Symposium/Cross-Linguistic Studies of Tonal Phenomena/Tonogenesis, Typology and Related Topics (in Korean), Tokyo, Japan, pages 91—104