미다

First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 믜다 (Yale: muyta), meaning "to hate; to tear into pieces; to fall off". Whether the senses are extensions of a single core meaning, or whether these are independent verbs which have simply been homophones since the earliest sources, does not appear to be clear.

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  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

미다 • (mida) (infinitive 며 or 미어, sequential 미니)

1. (archaic, intransitive, of hair) to fall out enough to expose the skin
2. (archaic, transitive, of paper, etc.) to tear accidentally
3. (obsolete, transitive) to ostracize

• 민 (min, prefix for bare or unadorned things)
• 밉다 (mipda, “to be hateful”) (originally derived adjective)
• 미어지다 (mieojida, “(of the heart, figurative) to burst with grief”) (originally derived passive)