가달
Jeju
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Koreanic *katoL (“something forked or split from each other”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]가달 (gadal)
Korean
[edit]Etymology
[edit]This word is part of a family of related terms with a core meaning of "split". The ancestral root form appears to have been *가ᄃᆞ *kato- or similar, with some forms undergoing intervocalic lenition and some not. Related forms include 갈래 (gallae, “strand, fork, division”), 가달 (gadal, “something split from each other”), 가닥 (gadak, “strand, long thin object”), and 가르다 (gareuda, “to split, to sort out”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [ka̠da̠ɭ]
- Phonetic hangul: [가달]
| Romanizations | |
|---|---|
| Revised Romanization? | gadal |
| Revised Romanization (translit.)? | gadal |
| McCune–Reischauer? | kadal |
| Yale Romanization? | katal |
Noun
[edit]가달 • (gadal)
- a very ferocious person
- (originally Hamgyong, now North Korea) anything split from each other
- (Gangwon) branch
Synonyms
[edit]- (branch): (standard Korean) 가닥 (gadak)