열매

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Korean

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Etymology

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From Early Modern Korean 열ᄆᆡ (yelmoy), 열매 (yelmay).

Displaced Middle Korean 여름〮 (yèlúm, fruit), a nominalization of 열〯다〮 (yěltá, to ripen), due to normal sound changes transforming 녀름〮 (nyèlúm, summer) into the homophone 여름 (yelum, summer).[1] From Old Korean 菓音 (*YELUm).

Pronunciation

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Romanizations
Revised Romanization?yeolmae
Revised Romanization (translit.)?yeolmae
McCune–Reischauer?yŏlmae
Yale Romanization?yel.may

Noun

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열매 (yeolmae)

  1. (also figuratively) fruit

See also

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  • (gwa), (sil), hanja for "fruit"

References

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  1. ^ 여름열매 [yeoreum-yeolmae]”, in 온라인가나다 [ollain'ganada]‎[1], 국립국어원 [gungnipgugeowon], 2016 May 16, archived from the original on 12 June 2020