그치다

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Korean

Etymology

First attested in the Yongbi eocheon'ga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean 그치〮다〮 (Yale: kùchí-tá), originally the causative with (-i-) of the intransitive verb 긏다〮 (Yale: kùch-tá, “to come to a stop”). The causative later replaced the original verb.

Pronunciation

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?geuchida
Revised Romanization (translit.)?geuchida
McCune–Reischauer?kŭch'ida
Yale Romanization?ku.chita

Verb

그치다 (geuchida) (infinitive 그쳐 or 그치어, sequential 그치니)

  1. (transitive) to stop something
  2. (intransitive) to come to a stop

Conjugation

Derived terms

그침표, 그침꼴