Korean/Words/가을
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Autumn leaves are about to fall!
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Harvesting in autumn. Harvest also means autumn, at least in British dialect.
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가을
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- Compounds
- 가을걷이 (-geod-i, "harvesting") [6]
- Comparatives
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- ↑ 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
- harvest
- autumn, fall
- ↑ Western cognates:
Latin carpo (“I pluck, pick, harvest”)
Greek καρπός (karpós, “fruit”), κείρω (keírō, “to cut off”)