-으매

Korean

Alternative forms

매 (-mae) — after vowels and ㄹ (-l)

Etymology

From 음 (-eum, verbal noun-deriving suffix) +‎ 애 (-ae, obsolete form of 에 (-e, “at”, locative marker)): "at [VERB]ing...". May have grammaticalized as a purpose-marking suffix in the seventeenth century.^[1]

Pronunciation

(SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ɯmɛ] ~ [ɯme̞]
Phonetic hangul: [으매/으메]

Romanizations
Revised Romanization^?	eumae
Revised Romanization (translit.)^?	eumae
McCune–Reischauer^?	ŭmae
Yale Romanization^?	umay

Suffix

으매 • (-eumae)

(dated) because, since
- 1790, 方(방)孝(효)彦(언) (Bang Hyo'eon), 蒙(몽)語(어)老(노)乞(걸)大(대) [The Old Cathayan for Mongol language]:
  져녁 이 되 도록 밥 먹지 못 ᄒᆞ야시매 ᄇᆡ ᄀᆞ장 골푸니 […]
  jeonyeog-i doe-dorok bap meokji mot hayasimae bae gajang golpuni [ … ]
  Since we were not able to eat anything into the evening, we are extremely hungry […]

References

^ 안주호 [anjuho] (2002) “ko:[원인]을 나타내는 연결어미에 대한 통시적 고찰 — <노걸대언해>류를 중심으로 — [On the historical development of purposive connectives in Korean: Focusing on the Nogeoldae eonhae]”, in Eoneohak, volume 34, pages 133—158

[1] 안주호 [anjuho] (2002) “ko:[원인]을 나타내는 연결어미에 대한 통시적 고찰 — <노걸대언해>류를 중심으로 — [On the historical development of purposive connectives in Korean: Focusing on the Nogeoldae eonhae]”, in Eoneohak, volume 34, pages 133—158

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