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Korean
- 결에 (gyeore), 결레 (gyeolle), 결게 (gyeolge) (early modern)
Etymology
First attested in the Samgang haengsildo (三綱行實圖 / 삼강행실도), 1481, as Middle Korean 결에 (Yale: kyelGey), equivalent to 겯— (gyeot-, “to plait”) + —에 (-e).
The sense of "nation-state" was a late nineteenth-century innovation inspired by the nationalistic desire of the Western term "nation".
Pronunciation
| Romanizations |
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| Revised Romanization? | gyeore |
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| Revised Romanization (translit.)? | gyeole |
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| McCune–Reischauer? | kyŏre |
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| Yale Romanization? | kyeley |
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Noun
겨레 • (gyeore)
- (archaic) kinsmen; relatives
- (literary) race; nation; people (generally referring to Koreans)
- Synonym: 민족(民族) (minjok, “nation”)
- 겨레 사랑 ― gyeore sarang ― fraternity among compatriots
말은 겨레의 얼이다.- Mar-eun gyeore-ui eor-ida.
- Language is the soul of a nation.
우리 겨레의 역사- uri gyeore-ui yeoksa
- history of our nation
남북통일은 온 겨레의 염원이다.- Nambuktong'ir-eun on gyeore-ui yeomwon-ida.
- Unification of the North and South is the wish of the whole Korean race.
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