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Korean
Etymology
First attested in the Bullyu dugongbu si eonhae (分類杜工部詩諺解 / 분류두공부시언해), 1481, as Middle Korean ᄒᆞ올 (Yale: howol), from unattested earlier *ᄒᆞᄫᆞᆯ (Yale: *howol), preserved in ᄒᆞᄫᆞᅀᅡ (Yale: hoWoza, “by oneself; alone”).
In Middle Korean, this was a noun meaning "being alone; being single"; the noun use survives in fossilized form in 홀로 (hollo, “alone; by oneself”), which incorporates the noun particle 로 (-ro, “by, with”), but is otherwise obsolete.
Pronunciation
| Romanizations |
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| Revised Romanization? | hol |
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| Revised Romanization (translit.)? | hol |
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| McCune–Reischauer? | hol |
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| Yale Romanization? | hol |
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Prefix
홀 • (hol-)
- single
Derived terms