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See also: -갓-
U+AC13, 갓
HANGUL SYLLABLE GAS
Composition: + +

[U+AC12]
Hangul Syllables
[U+AC14]




→ 개

Jeju

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Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /ka̠t̚/

Noun

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(gat)

  1. wife
  2. woman

Korean

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Etymology 1

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First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean ᄀᆞᆺ (Yale: kos).

Pronunciation

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Romanizations
Revised Romanization?gat
Revised Romanization (translit.)?gas
McCune–Reischauer?kat
Yale Romanization?kas

Adverb

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(gat)

  1. just now; a moment ago
    Synonyms: (mak), 방금(方今) (banggeum)
    다녀갔어요.Gat danyeogasseoyo.[He] has just been here.
    난아기gannanaginewborn (literally, “baby just now born”)
  2. just, barely; used to emphasize the newness of the state
    스무 gat seumu saljust [turned] twenty; barely twenty
Derived terms
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  • 갓난아기 (gannanagi, newborn, infant, literally just-born baby)
  • 갓밝이 (gatbalgi, dawn, literally just-brightening)

Etymology 2

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Korean Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ko
A mannequin wearing a gat.

First attested in the Hunminjeong'eum haerye (訓民正音解例 / 훈민정음해례), 1446, as Middle Korean 갇〮 (Yale: kát).

Pronunciation

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Romanizations
Revised Romanization?gat
Revised Romanization (translit.)?gas
McCune–Reischauer?kat
Yale Romanization?kas

Noun

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(gat)

  1. gat (a traditional Korean hat made of horsehair, once worn by married gentlemen)
    Synonym: 입자(笠子) (ipja)
  2. (mycology) pileus; cap of a mushroom
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • English: gat, kat
  • Japanese: カッ (ka')
  • Russian: кат (kat)

Etymology 3

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First attested in the Dong'ui bogam (東醫寶鑑 / 동의보감), 1613, as Early Modern Korean  (Yale: kas), plausibly an ancient pre-Sino-Korean borrowing from Old Chinese (OC *kreːds, “mustard plant”).[1] The Sino-Korean reading is (, gae).

Pronunciation

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Romanizations
Revised Romanization?gat
Revised Romanization (translit.)?gas
McCune–Reischauer?kat
Yale Romanization?kas

Noun

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(gat)

  1. mustard plant (Brassica juncea), or the grain thereof
Derived terms
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  • 갓김치 (gatgimchi, kimchi made of mustard leaves)
  • 갓나물 (gannamul, mustard greens)

Etymology 4

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First attested in the Daemyeongnyul jikhae (대명률직해 / 大明律直解) [The Correct Translation of the Great Ming Code], 1395, in the hungaja form (literally branch), to be understood that this word is to be pronounced similarly to the Middle Korean word for "branch", (Yale: kac).

Pronunciation

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Romanizations
Revised Romanization?gat
Revised Romanization (translit.)?gas
McCune–Reischauer?kat
Yale Romanization?kas

Noun

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(gat)

  1. (archaic) plant reserve; area whose plants cannot be cut
Derived terms
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Etymology 5

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Pronunciation

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Romanizations
Revised Romanization?gat
Revised Romanization (translit.)?gas
McCune–Reischauer?kat
Yale Romanization?kas

Counter

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(gat)

  1. bundle of ten dried fish or herbs
    굴비 여섯 gulbi yeoseot gatsix bunches of dried croaker fish

Etymology 6

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See the main entry; preserves the sibilant final (lenited to /z/ in Middle Korean and now fully lost in Seoul).

Pronunciation

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  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [ka̠(ː)t̚]
  • Phonetic hangul: [(ː)]
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?gat
Revised Romanization (translit.)?gas
McCune–Reischauer?kat
Yale Romanization?kās

Noun

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(gat)

  1. (Gyeongsang, Chungcheong, Jeolla dialect) Dialectal form of (ga, edge, fringe)

Etymology 7

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A hanja created in Korea to represent a syllable without Sino-Korean equivalent.

Syllable

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(gat)

References

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  1. ^ Laurent Sagart (1999) “The origin of Chinese tones”, in Proceedings of the Symposium/Cross-Linguistic Studies of Tonal Phenomena/Tonogenesis, Typology and Related Topics[1] (in Korean), Tokyo, Japan, pages 91—104