3 octobre 2023
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Huisu Yun, « Old Chinese medial *-r- and Early Old Korean transcriptions », The Bay of Marifu, ID : 10.58079/r8sl
It is well known that the Chinese character 買 meaX ( Late Old Chinese *mˤrɛʔ) in Old Korean toponyms stood for the Old Korean word for "water" (Lee & Ramsey 2011: 37ff). Traditionally, Korean scholars have regarded 買, which they read *mʌj or *mi based on the attested Sino-Korean reading of the character, as a word that has no direct descendant in later stages of Korean (except possibly in some isolated dialects), only fossilized in a number of compounds as mi-. But that makes little sense....