‘가위’[剪]의 어휘사

The History and Etymology of the word ‘가위’[剪]

  In this paper, I argue about the history and etymology of the word ‘가 위’[剪]. Firstly, I examine the various dialectal forms and the aspects of the historical change of ‘ㅸ’/β/ to reconstruct the ‘*가？’ as the proto-form of the dialectal forms ‘가위, 강위, 가우, 강우, 가웨, 가왜, 가외, 가이, 가의, 가 아, 강아’. But I also acknowledge the proto-form ‘*？개’ of the dialectal forms ‘가시개, 가새, 가세, 가애, 강애, 가에, 강에’, that is there were two etymologies ‘*가？’ and ‘*？개’ in Korean. Secondly, I explain the ‘*가？’ as the form which is made by combining the verbal stem ‘？-’(which meant ‘to divide into the same two’) and the suffix ‘-이’(which meant ‘instrument’). This is an entirely different etymology/word from ‘*？개’ which is formed by combining the verbal stem ‘？-’(which meant ‘to cut’) and the suffix ‘-개’(which meant ‘instrument’). Furthermore I explain the borrowing aspects of ‘*가？’ and ‘*？개’ in Altaic languages.