거성불연삼

Korean

Etymology

Sino-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.

Examples
집 (cìp, “house”, low-pitch noun) > 지비〮며〮 (cìp-ímyé, “it is a house”) 블〮 (púl, “fire”, high-pitch noun) > 브〮리며〮 (púl-ìmyé, “it is a fire”)

Pronunciation

• (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.

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?	geoseongburyeonsam
Revised Romanization (translit.)?	geoseongbul'yeonsam
McCune–Reischauer?	kŏsŏngburyŏnsam
Yale Romanization?	kēsengpul.yensam

Noun

거성불연삼 • (geoseongburyeonsam) (hanja 去聲不連三)

1. (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

   Hypernym: 율동규칙(律動規則) (“Middle Korean tone sandhi”)