2002, Vol.11, No.

Korean Semantics 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.11

pISSN : 1226-7198 / eISSN : 2734-0171
https://journal.kci.go.kr/semantics

Choe Chang-YeolChoe Eun-Jeong. 2002. On the Etymological Meaning of the Korean Word ‘gomabda’. Korean Semantics, 11. This study aims at illuminating the etymological meaning of Korean word ‘gomabda’. It is based on the three steps of argumentation. First of all, the myth of national foundation says that Dangun, the founding father of the Korean nation, was born of Ungnyeo. A question can be posed here as to whether the Korean people are the descendants from a bear. The answer is negative. ‘gom’ is derived from its original word ‘’, whose meaning is ‘God, King, or Majesty.’Secondly, s history book suggests that the Korean word ‘imgeum’ is originated in ‘닛’ with the meaning that the man with many teeth is wise. This is just the folk etymology and wrong. ‘닛’ is analysed as the man who can be the king in succession.Thirdly, it is accepted that ‘gamsahada’ is more polite than ‘gomabda’. From the etymological view, this is exactly the opposite. As shown in the examples like ‘goma(admire)’ and ‘goma(respect)’, The stem ‘’ of ‘gomabda’ means ‘God’ or ‘the King’. Hence, the word ‘gomabda’ can be phrased as ‘I am fully thankful to serve you as God.’

Lee Chan-Kyu. 2002. A Study on Korean Word Association(Ⅱ). Korean Semantics, 11. This thesis was aimed to study analyzing the process, method, result of Korean word association. I have surveyed 957 high school students, 1128 college students, and 96 adults in 2001. By the method of the free word association, each person wrote a word or phrase within 10 seconds for stimulating 20 words. The word association of six words was already analysed on Lee, ChanKyu(A Study on Korean Word Association(Ⅰ), 2002). This thesis was studied the word association of another six words.The most important thing as the result of study is as follows ;Several kinds of rules, for instant minimal-contrast rule, marking rule, idiom-completion rule and so on, connected with word association which is already studied is not universally applicable for all stimulating word. The characteristics of stimulating words and personal experiences related with suggested words are both decisive elements which derives responding words from brain.

Suk Joo Yeon. 2002. The Morphology and the Semantics of ‘둘우다’. Korean Semantics, 11. We examine ‘둘우다’ in a number of different Korean-translations of Nogeoldae and of Baktongsa, and investigate its meaning and morphological structure. It is generally accepted that we need to consider the context of a word, the original Chinese text and the translational pattern of different translations of the text in order to determine the meaning and the form of the word which is not intuitively clear to us, modern reader. We can arrive at the correct conclusion about ‘둘우다’, only by taking into account of these factors. ‘둘우다’ is identified as causative verb, which has a structure of ‘둘’+‘-우-’. Based on this conclusion, we can distinguish clearly ‘Du-uer두워’(translation of ‘罷罷’) from ‘둘워’(translation of ‘將就’) in their meanings and morphological structures.