Re: Japanese from Tungus
| From: | Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 25, 2005, 3:33 |
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Hi!
Rob Haden <magwich78@...> writes:
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> Are 'Hanguk' and 'Hangul' caseforms of some word 'Hangu'?
No, -guk and -gul are totally different words.
> The '-gu' element and 'Gu-' are probably the same, from Mandarin
> 'guo' "nation".
No, 'guk' corresponds to Mandarin 'guo2' (probably at the time of
borrowing, the Chinese words still had an ending -k). For 'gul',
someone else will have to help, I don't know.
Case endings are longer in Korean -- namely full syllables, at least
no single consonants -- and actually are no cases but postpositions,
IIRC. I just recal '-neun' to be one of the nominative endings (I
think there are two depending on stem).
Yoon Ha used to know this, but she has a RealLife(tm) now, I assume. :-)
*Henrik
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