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Korean
- 매 (-mae) — after vowels and ㄹ (-l)
Etymology
From 음 (-eum, verbal noun-deriving suffix) + 애 (-ae, obsolete form of 에 (-e, “at”, locative marker)): "at ing...". May have grammaticalized as a purpose-marking suffix in the seventeenth century.[1]
Pronunciation
| Romanizations |
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| Revised Romanization? | eumae |
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| Revised Romanization (translit.)? | eumae |
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| McCune–Reischauer? | ŭmae |
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| Yale Romanization? | umay |
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Suffix
으매 • (-eumae)
- (dated) because, since
1790, 方孝彦 (Bang Hyo'eon), 蒙語老乞大 [The Old Cathayan for Mongol language]:져녁이 되도록 밥 먹지 못 ᄒᆞ야시매 ᄇᆡ ᄀᆞ장 골푸니 […]- jeonyeog-i doe-dorok bap meokji mot hayasimae bae gajang golpuni [ … ]
- Since we were not able to eat anything into the evening, we are extremely hungry
References
- ^ 안주호 [anjuho] (2002) “ko:을 나타내는 연결어미에 대한 통시적 고찰 — <노걸대언해>류를 중심으로 — [On the historical development of purposive connectives in Korean: Focusing on the Nogeoldae eonhae]”, in Eoneohak, volume 34, pages 133—158