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The oldest indirect attestation is as the calqued Chinese form 水靑木, first found in the Hyangyak Gugeupbang (향약구급방 / 鄕藥救急方) written in the mid-thirteenth century and common in Korean Classical Chinese ever since.
First attested in the Hunmong jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527, as Middle Korean므프레 (Yale: mùphùlèy), from 믈(mul, “water”) + 플—(phul-, “to be green, to be blue”) + 게(-key, agentive noun-deriving suffix). Literally "that which makes water blue". The bark of the ash tree produces a blue dye.
The generally encountered modern form is a compound that includes 나무 (namu, “tree”). This form is first attested in 1617.
