말미암다

First attested in the Beonyeok sohak (飜譯小學 / 번역소학), 1517, as Middle Korean 말ᄆᆡ삼다 (Yale: malmoy-samta), from 말ᄆᆡ (Yale: malmoy, “cause”) + 삼다 (Yale: samta, “to take as”). The /s/ was elided in the sixteenth century as the word merged into a single morpheme.

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말미암다 • (malmiamda) (infinitive 말미암아, sequential 말미암으니)

1. (literary, formal) to be engendered; to be caused (generally accompanied by the instrumental particle 로 (ro))

   Synonym: 기인(起因)하다 (giinhada)

   이 사건으로 말미암아 그는 감금되었다.

   I sageon-euro malmiama geu-neun gamgeum-doeeotda.

   Due to this incident, he was imprisoned.

   화재로 말미암은 폐허는 끝이 없었다.

   Hwajae-ro malmiameun pyeheo-neun kkeuch-i eopseotda.

   The devastation wrought by the fire was endless.

2. (rare) to pass by a place