tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post1394545328479839650..comments2024-03-28T21:52:52.100-06:00Comments on Dispatches From Turtle Island: The Testimony Of The DogAndrew Oh-Willekehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02537151821869153861noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-75763528553970597552016-12-19T10:50:01.971-07:002016-12-19T10:50:01.971-07:00Thank you very much for this analysis.Thank you very much for this analysis.andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08172964121659914379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315236707728759521.post-52890816634562216782016-12-19T04:05:18.003-07:002016-12-19T04:05:18.003-07:00The Korean word for "dog" is 개 /kɛː/, wh...The Korean word for "dog" is 개 /kɛː/, which descends from Middle Korean 가히 /kahi/ ~ 갛 /kah/. (/kahi/, which is the nominative form and the citation form in Middle Korean, perhaps derives from */kah/ + the Korean nominative case marker /-i/. For the other cases, case-marking suffixes that began with a consonant in their underlying phonemic forms attached to /kahi/, whereas case-marking suffixes that began with a vowel in their underlying phonemic forms attached to /kah/.)<br /><br />In addition, standard Korean has 강아지 /kaŋaʨi/ "puppy," and 강생이 /kaŋsɛŋi/ "puppy" is used by speakers of some dialects in the extreme south of Korea (<i>e.g.</i> Jeju Island). None of these words has the appearance of a typical Sinitic loanword (of which there are a plethora in Korean).<br /><br />By the way, actual Sinitic loan morphemes in Korean that mean "dog" include 犬 견 /kjʌn/ (in both the modern Chinese vernacular and in Korean, this is a bound morpheme that is used in some compounds) and 狗 구 /ku/ (used frequently in the modern Chinese vernacular, but only rarely and as a bound morpheme in Korean).Ebizurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16925110639823856429noreply@blogger.com