뒤집다

First attested in the Eulbyeong yeonhaengnok (乙丙燕行錄/ 을병연행록), 1766, as Early Modern Korean 뒤딥다 (Yale: twuy-tipta). Also attested in the Eulbyeong yeonhaengnok (乙丙燕行錄/ 을병연행록), 1766, as Early Modern Korean 뒤집다 (Yale: twuy-cipta).

The first element is from Middle Korean 드위다 (Yale: tuwuyta) "to flip", but the second element is not clear. Yi Hyeon-jeong notes that 집다 (jipda, “to grab”) or 잡다 (japda, “to catch”) are both a passable semantic match, but that neither form is compatible with 딥다. As the palatalization of /ti/ to /t͡ɕi/ was ongoing in 1766 and both forms are attested in the same text, Yi speculates that 뒤딥다 is a result of hypercorrection by the writer.

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): ~
• Phonetic hangul:

뒤집다 • (dwijipda) (infinitive 뒤집어, sequential 뒤집으니)

1. (transitive) to invert, to flip (an object, such as a pancake on a hot skillet)
2. (transitive) to turn upside down, to capsize (a floating vessel, from rowboats to ships, of any size)
3. (transitive) to reverse, to turn inside-out

   옷을 뒤집어 입었다. ― Oseul dwijibeo ibeotda. ― I wore my clothes turned inside-out.

• 뒤집어엎다 (dwijibeo'eopda, “to turn upside-down”)
• 뒤집히다 (dwijiphida, “to invert, flip, capsize, reverse passive”)

• 이현정 [ihyeonjeong] (2011) “'드위'의 통시적 발달에 대하여 [deuwi ui tongsijeok baldare daehayeo, On the diachronic development of tuwuy-]”, in Hyeongtaeron, volume 13, number 2, pages 291–310
• Martin, Samuel E., Yang Ha Lee, Sung-Un Chang (1975) A Korean-English Dictionary, New Haven: Yale University Press, page 516.