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| 나낙낚낛난낝낞 낟날낡낢낣낤낥 낦낧남납낪낫났 낭낮낯낰낱낲낳 | |
| 끼 ← | → 내 |
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| Romanizations | |
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| Revised Romanization? | na |
| Revised Romanization (translit.)? | na |
| Yale Romanization? | na |
나 (na)
FromMiddle Korean낳〮(náh).
나 (na)
FromMiddle Korean나 (Yale:nà, “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 pronouns나(na,“I; me”),너(neo,“you”), and누(nu,“who”) (> modern누구(nugu)) were all formed from the same etymon viaablaut, 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 withOld Japanese己(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).
| Audio: | (file) |
| Romanizations | |
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| Revised Romanization? | na |
| Revised Romanization (translit.)? | na |
| McCune–Reischauer? | na |
| Yale Romanization? | na |
나• (na)
FromMiddle Korean낳〮(náh); see the main entry for more.
| Audio: | (file) |
| Romanizations | |
|---|---|
| Revised Romanization? | na |
| Revised Romanization (translit.)? | na |
| McCune–Reischauer? | na |
| Yale Romanization? | nā |
나• (na)
Modern Korean reading of various Chinese characters.
나• (na)
Modern Korean reading of various Chinese characters, when in isolation or as the first character of a word. Word-internally, they are pronounced as라(ra).
Following a language reform in the mid-twentieth century, North Koreans pronounce these characters as라(ra) in all environments.
나• (na)
나• (na)