셤
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셔셕셖셗션셙셚 셛셜셝셞셟셠셡 셢셣셤셥셦셧셨 셩셪셫셬셭셮셯 | |
세 ← | → 셰 |
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Early Modern Korean edit
Alternative forms edit
- 섬 (sem) — late 19th century
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle Korean 셤〯 (syěm).
Possibly related to Baekje 斯麻 (*syema, “island”) and Japanese 島 (shima, “island”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
셤 (syem)
Descendants edit
- Korean: 섬 (seom)
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle Korean 셤〮 (syém).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
셤 (syem)
Descendants edit
- Korean: 섬 (seom)
References edit
- ^ Vovin, Alexander (2013) “From Koguryo to T'amna”, in Korean Linguistics[1], volume 15, number 2 (PDF), John Benjamins Publishing Company, , pages 222-240.
Korean edit
Pronunciation edit
- (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [ɕʰɘ(ː)m]
- Phonetic hangul: [셤(ː)]
- Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
Romanizations | |
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Revised Romanization? | syeom |
Revised Romanization (translit.)? | syeom |
McCune–Reischauer? | syŏm |
Yale Romanization? | syēm |
Noun edit
셤 • (syeom)
- (colloquial) Contraction of 시험(試驗) (siheom, “test, exam”).
Middle Korean edit
Etymology 1 edit
Possibly related to Baekje 斯麻 (*syema, “island”) and Japanese 島 (shima, “island”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
셤〯 (syěm)
- island
- 1447, “Stanza 67”, in 龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가 [Yongbi Eocheon'ga]:
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Counter edit
셤〮 (syém)
- a seom, a unit of volume
- 1481, “君不見簡蘇徯 / 군불견간소혜”, in 分類杜工部詩諺解 / 분류두공부시언해 [Bullyu Dugongbu Si Eonhae], page 19:45b:
- 그듸ᄂᆞᆫ〮 긼〮ᄀᆞ〯ᅀᆡᆺ ᄇᆞ리〮옛〮ᄂᆞᆫ 모〮ᄉᆞᆯ 보디〮 아니〮ᄒᆞᄂᆞᆫ다〮 […] ᄒᆞᆫ 셤〮만〮 ᄒᆞᆫ 녯〯 므〮레 蛟龍이〮 갈맛〮ᄂᆞ니〮라
- kùtùy-nón kíl-s-kǒz-òy-s pòlíyéysnòn mwós-òl pwòtí àníhònòntá […] hòn syém-mán hòn nyěy-s múl-èy KYWO.LYWONG-í kàlmásnònílà
- Have you not seen by the roadside a deserted pond? […] In that seom of old water, there hides the Jiaolong.
Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ Vovin, Alexander (2013) “From Koguryo to T'amna”, in Korean Linguistics[2], volume 15, number 2 (PDF), John Benjamins Publishing Company, , pages 222-240.