於羅瑕

Baekje

Etymology

Probably related to 於陸 (“queen”).

Noun

於羅瑕 (*eraγa? or *orIkOkE?) (Nihon shoki オリコケ or ヲリコケ)

1. king (as used by the elite?)

   Synonyms: 鞬吉支 (*kən-kici), 吉支 (*kici)

   Coordinate term: 於陸 (*oruk, “queen”)

Reconstruction notes

Given as 於羅瑕 (MC 'jo|'u la hae) in the Book of Zhou, which states that this is an aristocratic word for the king of Baekje as opposed to the commoners' word 鞬吉支 (*k(j)ən-kici).

Given as 于羅瑕 (MC hju la hae) in the History of the Northern Dynasties.

Given as オリコケ (*orikoke) and ヲリコケ (*worikoke) in katakana glosses to the Nihon shoki.

References

• John Bentley (2000) “New Look at Paekche and Korean: Data from Nihon shoki”, in Language Research‎^[1], volume 36, number 2, Seoul National University, pages 417—443
• Alexander Vovin (2005) “Koguryo and Paekche: Different Languages or Dialects of Old Korean?”, in Journal of Inner and East Asian Studies, volume 2, number 2, Koguryo Research Foundation, pages 108—140
• Alexander Vovin (2013) “From Koguryo to T'amna”, in Korean Linguistics‎^[2], volume 15, number 2, John Benjamins Publishing Company, pages 222—240