버금

Korean

Etymology

First attested in the Seonjong yeonggajip eonhae (禪宗永嘉集諺解 / 선종영가집언해), 1456, as Middle Korean 버굼〮 (Yale: pèk-wúm), equivalent to the now obsolete verb 벅 (Yale: pèk-, “to come next”) + 움〮 (Yale: -wúm, verbal substantive-deriving suffix): "that which comes next".

The verbal stem is sometimes speculated to be an ancient, pre-Sino-Korean loan from Old Chinese 副 (OC *pʰɯɡs, “secondary, auxiliary”), although no firm evidence exists.^[1]

Pronunciation

(SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [pʌ̹ɡɯm]
Phonetic hangul: [버금]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization^?	beogeum
Revised Romanization (translit.)^?	beogeum
McCune–Reischauer^?	pŏgŭm
Yale Romanization^?	pekum

Noun

버금 • (beogeum)

(especially with 가다) the second; just below the best

Derived terms

버금가다 (beogeumgada)
버금하다 (beogeumhada)

References

^ 김태경 [gimtaegyeong] (2014 December) “상고 중국어 음운현상에서 본 한국어 어원 [sanggo junggugeo eumunhyeonsang'eseo bon han'gugeo eowon]”, in Junggugeo Munhak Nonjip, volume 89, pages 71—90

[1] 김태경 [gimtaegyeong] (2014 December) “상고 중국어 음운현상에서 본 한국어 어원 [sanggo junggugeo eumunhyeonsang'eseo bon han'gugeo eowon]”, in Junggugeo Munhak Nonjip, volume 89, pages 71—90

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