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See also: -나
U+B098, 나
HANGUL SYLLABLE NA
Composition: +

[U+B097]
Hangul Syllables
[U+B099]
U+320F, ㈏
PARENTHESIZED HANGUL NIEUN A

[U+320E]
Enclosed CJK Letters and Months
[U+3210]
U+326F, ㉯
CIRCLED HANGUL NIEUN A

[U+326E]
Enclosed CJK Letters and Months
[U+3270]




끼 ←→ 내

Jeju

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Cognate with Korean (na).

Pronoun

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(na)

  1. I, the first-person singular pronoun

Etymology 2

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From Middle Korean 낳〮 (náh).

Noun

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(na)

  1. age
Alternative forms
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References

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  • ” in Jeju Dialect Dictionary, Jeju Special Self-Governing Province.
  • ” in Andrew Cheng; K. David Harrison, Jeju-eo Talking Dictionary, Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, 2014.

Korean

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Korean (Yale: , “I; me”). Presumably existed in Old Korean, but cannot be ascertained because Old Korean pronouns were written with Chinese logograms that obscure the pronunciation.

It has been suggested since the 1950s that the basic Korean pronouns (na, I; me), (neo, you), and (nu, who) (> modern 누구 (nugu)) were all formed from the same etymon via ablaut, which appears to have once been an extremely productive process in Korean, at some very ancient stage.[1][2] Given the very limited data on prehistoric Korean, this hypothesis cannot be proven for sure either way.

Possibly cognate with Old Japanese (na, I, first-person singular plain (non-polite) pronoun); if so, generally assumed to be a Korean loan into Japanese given the scarcity of Ryukyuan cognates (Vovin 2010).

Pronunciation

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  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [na̠]
    • Audio:(file)
  • Phonetic hangul: []
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?na
Revised Romanization (translit.)?na
McCune–Reischauer?na
Yale Romanization?na

Pronoun

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(na)

  1. I, me; the first-person singular plain (non-polite) pronoun
    Synonym: (humble) (jeo, I, me)
    Antonym: (neo, you)
    하늘 나는 자동차 빨리 발명되기 바란다.Na-neun haneur-eul naneun jadongcha-ga ppalli balmyeong-doegi-reul baranda.I hope that flying cars will be invented soon.
Alternative forms
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Derived terms
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  • 너나 (neona, you and me)
See also
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Etymology 2

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From Middle Korean 낳〮 (náh); see the main entry for more.

Pronunciation

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  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [na̠(ː)]
  • Phonetic hangul: [(ː)]
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?na
Revised Romanization (translit.)?na
McCune–Reischauer?na
Yale Romanization?

Noun

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(na)

  1. (especially Gyeongsang) Alternative form of 나이 (nai, age)

Etymology 3

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Modern Korean reading of various Chinese characters.

Syllable

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(na)

Etymology 4

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Modern Korean reading of various Chinese characters, when in isolation or as the first character of a word. Word-internally, they are pronounced as (ra).

Following a language reform in the mid-twentieth century, North Koreans pronounce these characters as (ra) in all environments.

Syllable

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(na)

Etymology 5

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(na)

  1. present of 나다 (nada)

References

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  1. ^ 이근수 [igeunsu] (1971) “()()()()()()()()()()()()()()으로 [Categories of semantic vowel alternation: Focusing on Middle Korean]”, in Gugeo gungmunhak, volume 54, pages 93—132
  2. ^ 이근수 [igeunsu] (1975) “Ablaut ()() [A study of ablaut]”, in Eomunnonjip, volume 10, pages 85—100