빼다

• ᄲᅡ히다 (ppahida), ᄲᅢ히다 (ppaehida), ᄲᅢ이다 (ppaeida) (Early Modern obsolete forms)
• ᄲᅢ다 (ppaeda), ᄲᆡ다 (ppaeda) (Early Modern and early twentieth-century obsolete spellings)

First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean ᄲᅡᅘᅧ다 (Yale: spa.hhyeta). Also attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean ᄲᅢᅘᅧ다 (Yale: spay.hhyeta). From ᄲᅡ (spa-, *) + ᅘᅧ다 (hhyeta, “to drag, to pull”).

ᅘᅧ (Yale: hhye) simplified to 히 (Yale: hi) in the mid-late fifteenth century, producing the late Middle Korean and Early Modern Korean forms ᄲᅡ히다 (ppahida) and ᄲᅢ히다 (ppaehida). Medial /h/ was lost in at least some dialects by the seventeenth century, resulting in the Early Modern forms ᄲᅡ이다 (ppaida), ᄲᅢ이다 (ppaeida), and ᄲᅢ다 (ppaeda), which became monophthongized to the modern form ᄲᅢ다 (ppaeda) / 빼다 (ppaeda) by the nineteenth century in Seoul speech.

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): ~
• Phonetic hangul:
  • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.

빼다 • (ppaeda) (infinitive 빼 or 빼어, sequential 빼니)

1. to pull, to remove, to take out
2. (arithmetic, mathematics) to subtract
3. to lose weight
4. to resemble