Korean/Words/버텅아래

버텅아래

RR: beoteong-arae

1. Your, His or Her Majesty

Synonyms

• 폐하 (陛下, pyaeha, "Your, His or Her Majesty")

Comparatives

• Majesty

  The common majesty is "the quality of being impressive and great." What could physically justify the royal Majesty? It may be especially when His/Her Majesty leads the great noble crowd. Likewise is the case with the Korean counterpart, which is a metonym from Korean 버텅 (beoteong, "stepstone" + 아래 (arae, "the lower part"), possibly a calque from Sino-Korean 폐하 (pyaeha) from Chinese 陛下, all suggesting the noble gathering below the royal stepstone. As such, great nobility, east and west, must act as a measure, metaphor and/or metonym for great royalty and/or majesty.

Comments

• This entry is to enter 표준국어대사전 (pyojun-gukeo-daesajeon), too.

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