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)

(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”)