毛冬

• 毛達

毛冬 (*mwotol)

1. cannot; denotes inability to carry out the verb
   • c. 740, 忠談師 (Chungdamsa), “讚耆婆郞歌 (Changiparang-ga)”, in 三國遺事 (Samguk Yusa) [Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms]:

     雪是毛冬乃乎尸

     that the snow will not be able to breach

   • c. 965, 均如 (Gyunyeo), “請轉法輪歌 (Cheongjeonbeomnyun-ga)”, in 均如傳 (Gyunyeo-jeon) [Works of Gyunyeo]:

     善芽毛冬長乙隱

     who could not cultivate sprouts of goodness

   • 1262, 尙書都官貼 (Sangseodogwan cheop) [Idu documents of the Department of State Affairs]:

     酬答毛冬敎功業是去有在等以

     as there is merit that he could not respond to

2. poorly
   • c. 690, 得烏 (Deugo), “慕竹旨郞歌 (Mojukjirang-ga)”, in 三國遺事 (Samguk Yusa) [Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms]:

     毛冬居叱沙哭屋尸以憂音

     *mwotel Is-sa WUL-wo-lq-LWO SILU-m

     [I] live in a miserable state by weeping and grief

   • c. 790, 永才 (Yeongjae), “遇賊歌 (Ujeok-ga)”, in 三國遺事 (Samguk Yusa) [Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms]:

     皃史毛達只將來呑隱

     *CUs mwotel ki-KACI-WO-LQ to-n

     yet the shape [of my life] has gone poorly

• Middle Korean: 몯 (mwot, “cannot; poorly”)
  • Korean: 못 (mot, “cannot; poorly”)

• 박형우 (Bak Hyeong-u) (2003) , “Hyangchal 'Modong'-ui haeseok-e daehayeo [On the interpretation of hyangchal '毛冬']”, in Cheongnam Eomun, volume 27, pages 407–428
• Nam Pung-hyeon (2019). "Mojukjirangga-ui saeroun haedok" 慕竹旨郞歌의 새로운 해독 ["A new reading of the Mojukjirangga"]. Gugyeol Hakhoe Haksul Daehoe (conference). Yongin, South Korea. pp. 1–8.