누
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누눅눆눇눈눉눊 눋눌눍눎눏눐눑 눒눓눔눕눖눗눘 눙눚눛눜눝눞눟 | |
뇨 ← | → 눠 |
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Korean[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [nu]
- Phonetic hangul: [누]
Romanizations | |
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Revised Romanization? | nu |
Revised Romanization (translit.)? | nu |
McCune–Reischauer? | nu |
Yale Romanization? | nwu |
Etymology 1[edit]
Korean reading of various Chinese characters.
Syllable[edit]
누 (nu)
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Etymology 2[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
누 • (nu)
Middle Korean[edit]
Etymology[edit]
It has been suggested since the 1950s that the basic Korean pronouns 나 (na, “I; me”), 너 (ne, “you”), and 누 (nwu, “who”) (> modern 누구 (nugu)) were all formed from the same etymon via ablaut, which appears to have once been an extremely productive process in Korean, at some very ancient stage.[1][2] Given the very limited data on prehistoric Korean, this hypothesis cannot be proven for sure either way.
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
누〮 (nwú)
- (interrogative) who?
- 1459, 月印釋譜 / 월인석보 [Worin seokbo], pages 8:86b—8.87a:
- 아라〮 녀리〮 그츤〮 이〮런 이ᄫᅳᆫ〮 길헤〮 눌〯 보〯리라〮 우러〮곰〮 온다〮
- àlá nyèl_í kùchún ílèn ìWún kìlh-éy nwǔ-l pwǒlìlá wùlé-kwóm wòntá
- On this confounding trail where there are no longer those to know the way, who do you intend to see, that you come weeping thus?
Usage notes[edit]
In Middle Korean, the pronoun only had an interrogative sense and did not mean "somebody" as in Modern Korean. The word for "somebody" was 아모 (amwo) > Modern 아무 (amu).
Inflection[edit]
Case | Form |
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Isolated | 누〮 (nwú) |
Nominative | 뉘〮 (nwúy) |
Accusative | 눌〯 (nwǔ-l), 누〮를〮 (nwú-lúl), 누〯를〮 (nwǔ-lúl) |
Genitive | 뉘〯 (nwǔy) |
The Middle Korean pronouns have an irregular pitch inflection otherwise unusual in the language, and the origin of which is unknown.
Descendants[edit]
- Korean: 누 (nu, “who, someone”) (archaic or dialectal)
- ⇒ Korean: 누구 (nugu, “who, someone”)
- ⇒ Korean: 누가 (nuga, “who, someone”, as subject)
- ⇒ Korean: 뉘 (nwi, “who, someone”) (archaic)
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