집난이

Korean

Etymology

Univerbation of 집 (jip, “house”) +‎ 난 (nan, “who has left”) +‎ 이 (i, “person”), as daughters would leave their families to live with their husbands.

Pronunciation

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [t͡ɕimna̠ni]
• Phonetic hangul: [짐나니]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?	jimnani
Revised Romanization (translit.)?	jibnan'i
McCune–Reischauer?	chimnani
Yale Romanization?	cipnan.i

Noun

집난이 • (jimnani)

1. (Pyongan, Hwanghae) married daughter
   • 1922, Kim Sowol, 첫치마 [Cheotchima, the First Skirt], 평안북도 곽산군 [pyeong'anbukdo gwaksan'gun]:
     미친 듯 우나니 집난이는 해 지고 저문 봄에... (Northern Pyongan, Kwaksan)

     Michin deut una-ni jimnani-neun hae ji-go jeomun bom-e...

     After crying with all her might, in the fading spring the married daughter...

     Poet Kim So-Wol, who grew up in Kwaksan county and wrote during the Japanese occupation, sometimes uses dialectal Pyongan words in his poems.