전래지명어에 나타난 지명접미사 ‘－이’에 대하여

On Place-name Suffix /i/(－이) in Korean

  This paper study on the meaning and structure of suffix /i/(-이) related with place-name. Suffix /i/ has no any lexical meaning. Suffix /i/ plays two kinds of roles in formative morpheme. One is connected with front place-name morpheme and the other is connected with back place-name morpheme. In general, suffix /i/ is connected with place-name of two syllables. But it is also connected with place-name whose last syllable is closed. In addition, suffix /i/has phonologically complex functions in place-name. For example, suffix /i/changes closed syllable into open syllable in last syllable, and change two syllables into three syllables. Siffix /i/ make the syllable of place-name stable. When unmarkedness ？ is established in place-name structure, we get a grasp of the structures of place-name with suffix /i/.