慕理

Old Korean

Alternative forms
  • 慕呂

Pronunciation

Old Korean orthography generally transcribes only the final syllable or coda consonant of a native verb stem, here written with 理 (Old Chinese *m(ə).rəʔ, Middle Chinese li). For semantic reasons, and because the second syllable matches, the verb is believed to be the Old Korean ancestor of Middle and Modern Korean kuli- "to long for". In the alternative form, 理 is replaced by 呂 with similar phonetics (Old Chinese *[r]aʔ, Middle Chinese ljo).

Middle Korean merged Old Korean *r and *l unconditionally, and it is not always easy to determine the Old Korean phoneme based on the Middle Korean reflex. Old Korean reconstructions are conventionally given in the Yale Romanization of Korean, which makes only those phonemic distinctions also made in Middle Korean. However, Alexander Vovin gives circumstantial evidence that the syllable being transcribed by 理 is *li with a lateral consonant.

Verb

慕理 (*KUli-)

  1. to long for; to miss [someone]

Descendants
  • Middle Korean: 그리다 (kulita)

References
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