Korean edit

Etymology edit

First attested in the Samgang haengsildo (三綱行實圖 / 삼강행실도), 1511. as Middle Korean 기도ᇰ (kitwong), from older suffixless form (kit) (First attested in the Hunminjeong'eum haerye (訓民正音解例 / 훈민정음해례), 1446.). Compare dialectal forms 기동 (gidong, Hamgyeong/Gangwon/Chungcheong/Jeolla), 지둥 (jidung, Chungnam), 지동 (jidong, Gyeongsang/Chungbuk/Jeju), 기듕 (gidyung, Hambuk), 지뒹 (jidwing, Hambuk), etc.[1]

Pronunciation edit

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?gidung
Revised Romanization (translit.)?gidung
McCune–Reischauer?kidung
Yale Romanization?kitwung

South Gyeongsang (Busan) pitch accent: 의 / 기에 / 기둥

Syllables in red take high pitch. This word always takes high pitch only on the second syllable, except before consonant-initial multisyllabic suffixes, when it takes full low pitch.

Noun edit

기둥 (gidung)

  1. pillar, column, post
    헤라클레스의 기둥은 지중해 입구에 놓여진 것으로 추정된다.
    herakeulleseuui gidung'eun jijunghae ipgue noyeojin geoseuro chujeongdoenda.
    The Pillars of Hercules, [...] (are) [...] supposed to have been placed at the mouth of the Mediterranean.
    (1882. Ignatius Donnelly, Atlantis: The Antediluvian World/Part 5/Chapter 9)

References edit

  1. ^ Rei, Fukui (2017 March 28) 小倉進平『朝鮮語方言の研究』所載資料による言語地図とその解釈―第1集[1], 東京大学人文社会系研究科 韓国朝鮮文化研究室, pages 33-36