Korean

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Etymology

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Sino-Korean word from 先語末語尾.

Pronunciation

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Romanizations
Revised Romanization?seoneomal eomi
Revised Romanization (translit.)?seon'eomal eomi
McCune–Reischauer?sŏnŏmal ŏmi
Yale Romanization?sen.emal emi

Noun

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어말 어미 (seoneomal eomi) (hanja 先語末語尾)

  1. (linguistics) an ending that cannot end a word; has to be preceded by another ending (e.g. -었- (-eot-))