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나낙낚낛난낝낞 낟날낡낢낣낤낥 낦낧남납낪낫났 낭낮낯낰낱낲낳 | |
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Jeju edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronoun edit
나 (na)
- I, the first-person singular pronoun
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle Korean 낳〮 (náh).
Noun edit
나 (na)
Alternative forms edit
- 나이 (nai)
References edit
Korean edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle Korean 나 (Yale: nà, “I; me”). Presumably existed in Old Korean, but cannot be ascertained because Old Korean pronouns were written with Chinese logograms that obscure the pronunciation.
It has been suggested since the 1950s that the basic Korean pronouns 나 (na, “I; me”), 너 (neo, “you”), and 누 (nu, “who”) (> modern 누구 (nugu)) were all formed from the same etymon via ablaut, which appears to have once been an extremely productive process in Korean, at some very ancient stage.[1][2] Given the very limited data on prehistoric Korean, this hypothesis cannot be proven for sure either way.
Possibly cognate with Old Japanese 己 (na, “I”, first-person singular plain (non-polite) pronoun); if so, generally assumed to be a Korean loan into Japanese given the scarcity of Ryukyuan cognates (Vovin 2010).
Pronunciation edit
- (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [na̠]
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- Phonetic hangul: [나]
Romanizations | |
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Revised Romanization? | na |
Revised Romanization (translit.)? | na |
McCune–Reischauer? | na |
Yale Romanization? | na |
Pronoun edit
나 • (na)
Alternative forms edit
Derived terms edit
- 너나 (neona, “you and me”)
See also edit
- 우리 (uri, “we”)
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle Korean 낳〮 (náh); see the main entry for more.
Pronunciation edit
- (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [na̠(ː)]
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- Phonetic hangul: [나(ː)]
- Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
Romanizations | |
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Revised Romanization? | na |
Revised Romanization (translit.)? | na |
McCune–Reischauer? | na |
Yale Romanization? | nā |
Noun edit
나 • (na)
- (especially Gyeongsang) Alternative form of 나이 (nai, “age”)
Etymology 3 edit
Modern Korean reading of various Chinese characters.
Syllable edit
나 (na)
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Etymology 4 edit
Modern Korean reading of various Chinese characters, when in isolation or as the first character of a word. Word-internally, they are pronounced as 라 (ra).
Following a language reform in the mid-twentieth century, North Koreans pronounce these characters as 라 (ra) in all environments.
Syllable edit
나 (na)
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