-으매

Korean

Alternative forms
  • 매 (-mae) – after vowels and ㄹ (-l)

Etymology

From 음 (-eum, verbal noun-deriving suffix) +‎ 애 (-ae, obsolete form of 에 (-e, “at”, locative marker)): "at [VERB]ing...". May have grammaticalized as a purpose-marking suffix in the seventeenth century.[1]

Pronunciation
  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [ɯmɛ] ~ [ɯme̞]
  • Phonetic hangul: [으매/으메]
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?-eumae
Revised Romanization (translit.)?eumae
McCune–Reischauer?ŭmae
Yale Romanization?umay

Suffix

으매 • (-eumae)

  1. (dated) because, since

References
  1. 안주호 (2002), “[원인]을 나타내는 연결어미에 대한 통시적 고찰 — <노걸대언해>류를 중심으로 — [On the historical development of purposive connectives in Korean: Focusing on the Nogeoldae eonhae]”, in Eoneohak, volume 34, pages 133—158
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