-이여

Korean

Alternative forms
  • 여 (-yeo) – after vowels

Etymology

From Middle Korean -이〮여〮 (Yale: -í-yé), from Old Korean 亦 (*-ye), 也 (*-ye).

Note that there is no Old or Middle Korean evidence that the first syllable is supposed to be the copula 이다 (-ida); the honorific form 이시여 (-isiyeo), which would suggest such an origin, is first attested only in the twentieth century.[1]

Pronunciation
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?-iyeo
Revised Romanization (translit.)?iyeo
McCune–Reischauer?iyŏ
Yale Romanization?iye

Particle

이여 • (-iyeo)

  1. (literary) O; vocative particle with exclamatory nuances, attaching to nouns and nominalized verbs.
    서울이여 안녕! ― Seour-iyeo annyeong! ― Goodbye, O, Seoul!
    영원해라, 나의 이 행복이여. ― Yeong'won-haera, na-ui i haengbog-iyeo. ― May it be everlasting, o this happiness of mine.

Derived terms

References
  1. 이성우 (2016), “'이여'와 '이시여'의 문법적 지위와 차이 [The grammatical status and differences of -iye and -isiye]”, in Gugeohak, volume 77, pages 167—197
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