ᄉᆞ

Jeju

Etymology

    Sino-Korean word from 四.

    Pronunciation

      • (Morphophonemic) IPA(key): ⫽sɒ⫽
      • (Jeju City) IPA(key): [sʰɒ]
      • Phonetic hangul: [ᄉᆞ]
      Romanizations
      Revised Romanization?saw
      Revised Romanization (translit.)?saw
      Yale Romanization?so

    Numeral

    ᄉᆞ (saw)

    1. four
      Synonym: 늿 (nuit)

    Middle Korean

    Etymology 1

    There are no uncontroversial attestations in Old Korean.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /sʌ/ (underlying pitch unclear)

    Noun

    ᄉᆞ (so) (kwukyel 士) (dependent noun) (chiefly after the verbal irrealis suffix 으ᇙ (-ulq))

    1. what to […] , something to […] , something that will […]
      Synonym: ᄃᆞ (to, “something”)
    2. how to […] , ability to […]
      Synonym: 줄 (cwul, “ability”)
    Descendants
    • ⇒ Korean: -을세 (-eulse)
    • ⇒ Korean: -을세라 (-eulsera)
    • ⇒ Korean: -을수록 (-eulsurok)
    • ⇒ Korean: -을시 (-eulsi)
    • ⇒ Korean: -을시고 (-eulsigo)
    • ⇒ Korean: -을쏜가 (-eulsson'ga)
    • ⇒ Korean: -을쏘냐 (-eulssonya)

    Etymology 2

    From Middle Chinese 四 (MC sijH).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /sʌ̀/

    Numeral

    ᄉᆞ (sò) (hanja 四)

    1. (Sino-Korean numeral) four
      Synonym: 넿〯 (něyh, native numeral)
    Descendants
    • Korean: 사 (sa)
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