10 novembre 2023
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Huisu Yun, « Eastern clouds and nutacism », The Bay of Marifu, ID : 10.58079/r8sq
Japanese 東雲 shinonome "daybreak" is curiously written with Chinese characters for "east" and "cloud". Since there is a Late Old Korean word 詞腦 *sinɔ that means "east", it seems plausible that shinonome reflects an ancient borrowing from Old Korean. However, the remaining part looks nothing like Late Middle Korean 구룸 kwulwum /kurum/ or Early Middle Korean 屈林 *kulVm, the earliest attested Korean form for "cloud" (Modern Korean 구름 kurŭm). Or does it? The Korean word for "east", fossilized in ...