ᄇᆞᄅᆞᆷ

Middle Korean

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pʌlʌm/, [pʌɾʌm]

Etymology 1

Possibly an ancient borrowing from Old Chinese 風 (OC *plum, *plums, “wind”),^[1] but also plausibly an ㅁ (-m) nominalization of unattested verb *ᄇᆞᆯ다 (*pol-ta), which would be the regular yang-vowel ablaut pair of 블다 (pul-ta, “to blow (of wind)”).

Noun

ᄇᆞᄅᆞᆷ (pòlòm)

wind, air, draft

Descendants

Korean: 바람 (baram)

Etymology 2

Noun

ᄇᆞᄅᆞᆷ (pòlòm)

wall, enclosure, surrounding

References

^ Jie, Zhao (2007) chapter 2, in From Japanese to Uyghur: The study of relationships between of languages of northern minorities, →ISBN, page 118

[1] Jie, Zhao (2007) chapter 2, in From Japanese to Uyghur: The study of relationships between of languages of northern minorities, →ISBN, page 118

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