거성불연삼
Korean
editEtymology
editSino-Korean word from 去聲 (“high pitch”) + 不 (“not”) + 連 (“continue”) + 三 (“thrice”), coined by Korean linguist Kim Wan-jin, who also coined 훈주음종 (訓主音從, hunjueumjong) and other important words in Korean historical linguistics.
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집 (cìp, “house”, low-pitch noun) > 지비〮며〮 (cìp-ímyé, “it is a house”) |
Pronunciation
edit- (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [ˈkɘ(ː)sʰʌ̹ŋbuɾjʌ̹nsʰa̠m]
- Phonetic hangul: [거(ː)성부련삼]
- Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
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Revised Romanization? | geoseongburyeonsam |
Revised Romanization (translit.)? | geoseongbul'yeonsam |
McCune–Reischauer? | kŏsŏngburyŏnsam |
Yale Romanization? | kēsengpul.yensam |
Noun
edit거성불연삼 • (geoseongburyeonsam) (hanja 去聲不連三)
- (linguistics) a Middle Korean tone sandhi process by which the penultimate syllable in an underlying sequence of three or more high-pitch syllables lowers to low pitch