고을

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Korean

Etymology

First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean ᄀᆞ옳 (Yale: kòwòlh), from earlier *고ᄫᆞᆶ (Yale: *kòWòlh) preserved in an MK place name, from pre-MK */kòpòlh/, from Proto-Koreanic *kopoLi. Related to 시골 (sigol, “countryside”), from Middle Korean 스〮ᄀᆞᄫᆞᆯ (Yale: súkòWòl).

Possibly related to Baekje 己富里 (*kopori, “district”), Goguryeo 忽 (*kuru/*kolo, “castle”), and Japanese 郡 (kōri, “county, district”).

Pronunciation

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?go'eul
Revised Romanization (translit.)?go'eul
McCune–Reischauer?koŭl
Yale Romanization?koul
  • South Gyeongsang (Busan) pitch accent: 고을의 / 고을에 / 고을까지

    Syllables in red take high pitch. This word always takes high pitch only on the second syllable, except before consonant-initial multisyllabic suffixes, when it takes full low pitch.

Noun

고을 • (go'eul)

  1. (usually historical) town, district

References

  1. ^ Vovin, Alexander (2013) “From Koguryo to T'amna”, in Korean Linguistics‎, volume 15, number 2 (PDF), John Benjamins Publishing Company, →DOI, pages 222-240
  2. ^ Lim, Byung-joon (1999) (A) Study on the borrowed writings of the dialect of Koguryo Dynasty in Ancient Korean (MA), Konkuk University
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