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As a language isolate or island, Korean is quite a mystery. Its homeland is suggested to be somewhere in Manchuria. Nevertheless, it is hardly related to Manchurian and Mongolian, not to mention Chinese, but rather likely to Icelandic, the fittest of Old Norse, across all Eurasia and history!

Say 말, to begin with. Though commonly romanized as mal, its vowel sounds either long as [ma:l] or short as [mal], as per IPA. The former means "language," while the latter "horse" above many other things. As such, the one may well compare with Old Norse mál ("language"), while the other with Old Norse marr ("horse"). And, Swedish Malmö and Korean 말뫼 (馬山, malmoe) may commonly mean "big mound" at last, when their first syllables mean "big" owing to the horse.

The sun (日) and the moon (月) are the most vital to us of all heavenly bodies. Before history, their moves gave way to the solar and lunar calendars, respectively. In orient, meanwhile, both are regarded as the symbols of yin-yang (陰陽, 阴阳), say, the ultimate makeup of the universe.

While the week begins with the sun and the moon, say, Sunday and Monday, we will do with Tuesday, literally, ‘Tiu's day.’ Tiu or Tiw, aka, Tyr in Norse mythology, was the ancient Germanic god of war, identified with Latin Mars, whence French mardi for Tuesday, for example.

Let it begin with English thing and its kindred, together with Chinese 廳 (ting) and 鼎 (ding) likely joined.


 * Tuesday

Not enough is to know that Tuesday is next to the sun's and moon's days. It literally means Tiu's day. What is Tiu at all?

Tiu or Tiw is the ancient Germanic god of war. He is identified with Tyr of Norse mythology. Romans regarded him as "Mars of Thing."

Not enough again is to know that Tuesday is followed by Odin's and Thor's and Frigg's days, named after such famous gods.

Among all these ancient Germanic gods, Tiu is alone a histoprical rather than mythological figure, specially in the East rather than West Eurasia.

Various Eastern peoples are proud of Tiu as their ancestor. So are some Koreans. And even Chinese nowadays, perhaps politically motivated.


 * Mars
 * marshal

Translations

 * "안 본 용은 그려도 본 뱀은 못 그린다." 눈앞에 있는 사실을 실제 그대로 파악하기는 어려움을 비유적으로 이르는 말.
 * "You draw an unseen dragon (wyrm) but a seen snake (wurm)." This is to show how hard it is to know the reality in itself.

horse bee
Hornet-vespa.jpg, German *Pferdebiene'


 * https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/말벌
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_hornet

Yule

 * Comparatives

halo

 * Extract from halo
 * These are hardly of natural language.

귀고리



 * See also
 * '귀고리'의 어원, 홍윤표(연세대학교), 새국어소식, 통권 제90호 (2006.01.)

눈

 * RR: nun

눈目

 * RR: nun IPA: [nun]


 * 1) eye

눈芽

 * RR: nun IPA: [nun]


 * 1) bud


 * め #Japanese
 * (me)


 * 1) eye
 * 2) bud

눈雪

 * RR: nun IPA: [nuːn]


 * 1) snow


 * Relatives

Bulgarian: сняг (snjag) Czech: sníh Serbo-Croatian: sneg, snijȇg, snig Polish: śnieg Russian: снег (sneg)


 * Associatives
 * 아늑하다 (anug-hada, "snug")
 * Love Story (1970 film)

꿀

 * Eurasian verbal distribution for "honey"
 * Adapted from honey


 * մեղր #Old Armenian (mełr)
 * մեղու #Old Armenian (mełu, “bee”)

Brythonic: *mel Breton: mel Cornish: mel Welsh: mêl Old Irish: mil Irish: mil Manx: mill Scottish Gaelic: mil

착시
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marl

 * Concerning:
 * not
 * but (mal, "language")
 * for Korean orthography in Latin alphabet (KoLa).

Vowels

 * Note : The Korean and Roman vowels fit perfect.


 * Comparison


 * Parsing ambiguity


 * #Etymology


 * , which is from (Seoul, literally “capital city”).
 * Note that predates the Revised Romanization of Seoul. Note also that the original French segmentation was Sé-oul (cf., i.e. Se-oel), but was reinterpreted as Seo-ul with Revised Romanization. A direct borrowing from Korean would probably result in "Soul", based on McCune–Reischauer romanization "Sŏul".


 * Seoul [[file:En-us-sole.ogg]]
 * soul [[file:en-us-soul.ogg]]

Consonants

 * Comparison
 * 않다
 * NR: anhda
 * RR: anta -- same as 안타 (whatever it may mean..) [[File:Ko-않다.ogg]]
 * RR may not aim to mean anything right.

Syllabary

 * References