Korean/Words/가을

가을 edit

Autumn leaves are about to fall!

Harvesting in autumn. Harvest also means autumn, at least in British dialect.

Roman: ga-eul
Alias: 가슬 (ga-seul)
Older: 그읋 (gv-eulh) < 그읋 (gv-vlh)
Noun [1] [2]
한 해의 네 철 가운데 셋째 철. 여름과 겨울의 사이... [3]
autumn, fall [4]
벼나 보리 따위의 농작물을 거두어들임.
harvest [5]

Compounds

가을걷이 (-geod-i, "harvesting") ^[6]

Comparatives

From autumn #Translations
Danish: høst Dutch: herfst Old English: hærfest ^[7] German: Herbst Icelandic: haust Norwegian: høst, haust Swedish: höst

Semantic steps

Dual	First ^[8]	Next
여름 summer+α	과실 fruit+α	하계 summer
가을 autumn+α	수확 harvest	추계 autumn

↑ https://ko.dict.naver.com/#/search?query=가을
↑ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/가을
↑ Koreean 여름 (yeoreum, "summer") also meant 열매 (yeol-mae, "fruit; seed").
↑ These succeeded Old English hærfest "autumn, fall; harvest" whose dual senses are parallel to Korean counterpart 가을 (ga-eul).
↑ This sense must have next made sense of "autumn" in English, while it is now unseen in other Germanic cognates, though related to Latin carpo "I seize, pick, pluck, harvest".
↑ 가을에 익은 곡식을 거두어들임.
↑
Proto-Germanic *harbistaz
1. harvest
2. autumn, fall
↑ Western cognates:
Latin carpo (“I pluck, pick, harvest”)
Greek καρπός (karpós, “fruit”), κείρω (keírō, “to cut off”)

[1] ttps://ko.dict.naver.com/#/search?query=가을

[2] ttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/가을

[3] Koreean 여름 (yeoreum, "summer") also meant 열매 (yeol-mae, "fruit; seed").

[4] These succeeded Old English hærfest "autumn, fall; harvest" whose dual senses are parallel to Korean counterpart 가을 (ga-eul).

[5] This sense must have next made sense of "autumn" in English, while it is now unseen in other Germanic cognates, though related to Latin carpo "I seize, pick, pluck, harvest".

[6] 가을에 익은 곡식을 거두어들임.

[7] Proto-Germanic *harbistaz
harvest

autumn, fall

[8] rvest

[9] utumn, fall

[8] Western cognates:
Latin carpo (“I pluck, pick, harvest”)
Greek καρπός (karpós, “fruit”), κείρω (keírō, “to cut off”)

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