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Pre-Hankul Materials, Koreo-Japonic, and Altaic
- Korean Studies
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 24, 2000
- pp. 142-155
- 10.1353/ks.2000.0018
- Article
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Although limited in number and thus far underused, Old Korean and Early Middle Korean data are valuable to comparative linguists. This article discusses several lexical items and grammatical morphemes from this body of data and demonstrates their significance for comparative Koreo-Japonic and Altaic studies. The author proposes a number of etymologies for the first time and, in several cases, refines etymologies suggested by others.