‘끊-’(斷)의 형성 과정에 대한 연구

A Study on a Formation Process of ‘kkeunh-’(斷)

This study is an examination of a formation process of ‘kkeunh-’ and its causation of restructuring in contemporary Korean. Forms that correspond to ‘kkeunh-’ in 15th century Korean are ‘geuch-’ and ‘geuchi-’; for ‘geuch-’, a suffix ‘-i-’ is combined to ‘geuch-’. In medieval Korean, the differences in meaning already existed on ‘geuch-’ and ‘geuchi-’. ‘geuch-’ strongly signifies the severance while ‘geuchi-’ the discontinuation. ‘geunch-’ newly appeared in 17th century. ‘geunch-’ was composed of verbal conjugation forms, ‘geucheo(그처)’ and ‘geuchyeo(그쳐)’, when vowel endings come to geuch-’ and ‘geuchi-’, having homonymic collision from palatalization and 'n'-insertion to solve this. In the late 17th century, ‘kkeunh()-’ appeared; this came out while reanalyzing ‘kkeuncheo(처)’ with ‘kkeunhj(ㅈ)-+-eo(어)’.