그치다

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Korean

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Etymology

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First attested in the Yongbi eocheon'ga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean 그치〮다〮 (Yale: kùchí-tá), originally the causative with (-i-) of the intransitive verb 긏다〮 (Yale: kùch-tá, “to come to a stop”). The causative later replaced the original verb.

Pronunciation

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Romanizations
Revised Romanization?geuchida
Revised Romanization (translit.)?geuchida
McCune–Reischauer?kŭch'ida
Yale Romanization?ku.chita

Verb

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그치다 (geuchida) (infinitive 그쳐 or 그치어, sequential 그치니)

  1. (transitive) to stop something
  2. (intransitive) to come to a stop

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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그침표, 그침꼴