기둥

Korean

Etymology

First attested in the Samgang haengsildo (三綱行實圖 / 삼강행실도), 1511. as Middle Korean 기도ᇰ (kitwong), from older suffixless form 긷 (kit) (First attested in the Hunminjeong'eum haerye (訓民正音解例 / 훈민정음해례), 1446.). Compare dialectal forms 기동 (gidong, Hamgyeong/Gangwon/Chungcheong/Jeolla), 지둥 (jidung, Chungnam), 지동 (jidong, Gyeongsang/Chungbuk/Jeju), 기듕 (gidyung, Hambuk), 지뒹 (jidwing, Hambuk), etc.[1]

Pronunciation
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?gidung
Revised Romanization (translit.)?gidung
McCune–Reischauer?kidung
Yale Romanization?kitwung

South Gyeongsang (Busan) pitch accent: 기둥의 / 기둥에 / 기둥까지

Syllables in red take high pitch. This word always takes high pitch only on the second syllable, except before consonant-initial multisyllabic suffixes, when it takes full low pitch.

Noun

기둥 • (gidung)

  1. pillar, column, post
    헤라클레스의 기둥은 지중해 입구에 놓여진 것으로 추정된다.
    herakeulleseuui gidung'eun jijunghae ipgue noyeojin geoseuro chujeongdoenda.
    The Pillars of Hercules, [...] (are) [...] supposed to have been placed at the mouth of the Mediterranean.
    (1882. Ignatius Donnelly, Atlantis: The Antediluvian World/Part 5/Chapter 9)

References
  1. Rei, Fukui (2017 March 28) 小倉進平『朝鮮語方言の研究』所載資料による言語地図とその解釈―第１集‎, 東京大学人文社会系研究科 韓国朝鮮文化研究室, pages 33-36
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