-뇨

Korean

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?nyo
Revised Romanization (translit.)?nyo
McCune–Reischauer?nyo
Yale Romanization?nyo

Suffix

-뇨 • (-nyo)

  1. An interrogative suffix.
    이 책을 훔치려고 한다뇨, 이상하지 않나요?
    i chaegeul humchiryeogo handanyo, isanghaji annayo?
    will I steal this book really, how weird?
    1961, “2:8”, in 개역한글 사도행전:
    우리가 우리 각 사람의 난 곳 방언으로 듣게 되는 것이 어찜이뇨
    uriga uri gak saramui nan got bang'eoneuro deutge doeneun geosi eojjiminyo
    Why do we hear our own dialects which are originated from places where we were born? (Note: this English translation is literal; in KJV, Acts 2:8 is translated as "And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?")

Middle Korean

Suffix

-뇨 (-nywo)

  1. An interrogative suffix.
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