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First attested in the Hunmong jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527, as Middle Korean되룡 (Yale: twòylyòng).
This word appears to be a compound of an unknown morpheme *되 (*twoy) with Sino-Korean 龍(lyong, “dragon”).
The word underwent sound change to 되롱 (doerong) by the eighteenth century, which made speakers unaware that the word was originally a compound involving 龍. Consequently, speakers reattached the same character 龍 to the word, producing 되롱뇽 (doerongnyong). The initial diphthong was monophthongized in the nineteenth century to create the present form.
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