졸다

Korean

Pronunciation

  • (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA(key): [ˈt͡ɕo̞(ː)ɭda̠]
  • Phonetic hangul: [(ː)]
    • Though still prescribed in Standard Korean, most speakers in both Koreas no longer distinguish vowel length.
Romanizations
Revised Romanization?jolda
Revised Romanization (translit.)?jolda
McCune–Reischauer?cholda
Yale Romanization?cōlta

Etymology 1

First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean ᄌᆞ올다〮 (Yale: còwòl-tá). The pre-Middle Korean form is reconstructed as *ᄌᆞᄇᆞᆯ *copol- on the strength of modern dialectal forms with /-p-/ in this word.[1] Perhaps related to 자다 (jada, “to sleep”).

Verb

졸다 • (jolda) (infinitive 졸아, sequential 조니)

  1. (intransitive) to doze off; to be sleepy; to be drowsy
Conjugation

Verb

졸다 • (jolda) (infinitive 졸아, sequential 조니)

  1. (intransitive) to boil down, to boil away
Derived terms

References

  1. 성은실 (Seong Eun-sil) (2013) “'졸다', '졸음', '졸리다'의 방언 분화 [jolda , joreum , jollida ui bang'eon bunhwa, Dialectal divergences in cwolta, cwolum, cwolita]”, in Bang'eonhak, volume 18, pages 265–286
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