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Etymology
From Proto-Celebic *asu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *asu, from Proto-Austronesian *(w)asu.
Noun
아우 (Latin spelling au)
- dog (animal)
Korean
Etymology
First attested in the Hunminjeong'eum haerye (訓民正音解例 / 훈민정음해례), 1446, as Middle Korean 아ᅀᆞ (Yale: àzò), most plausibly from the unattested archaic form 아ᅀᆞᆨ (Yale: *azok-).
Compare also Hamgyeong 아스 (aseu) and Jeju 아시 (asi).
Pronunciation
| Romanizations |
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| Revised Romanization? | au |
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| Revised Romanization (translit.)? | au |
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| McCune–Reischauer? | au |
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| Yale Romanization? | awu |
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Noun
아우 • (au)
- a man's younger brother
- Synonym: 남동생(男同生) (namdongsaeng)
- (by extension) a man's junior colleague
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References
- ^ 이승재 (Yi Seung-jae) (1983) “재구와 방언분화 [jaeguwa bang'eonbunhwa, Reconstructions and dialectal divergence]”, in Gugeohak, volume 12