Friday, June 02, 2006

Three-Way Hybrid Words

Total words: 133
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롸이언

This is just a curiosity I had today. I know that in Korean words are usually derived from one etymological source. In other words, Hanja roots usually combine together to make Hanja-based words and pure Korean roots combine together to form pure-Korean-based words. Of course there are some exceptions of Hanja-Korean hybrids like “진짜 [眞－]” and English-Korean hybrids like “종이컵[－－cup]” and even Hanja-English hybrids like “은메달[銀medal]”. However, my question is can anyone think of a word that has all three, Korean, Hanja, and English, all together in one word?

Actually, as I was typing this I thought of one: 팀장님 [team長－]. Having answered my own question, I was going to cancel this post, but thought I’d post it anyway to see if any else could think of one. Any ideas?


Posted by 롸이언 on Friday Jun 2, 2006 at 05:10 PM in Vocabulary |
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