to crouch; to cause to crouch (a body part) · to exist in a suppressed or hidden state (usually as 웅크리고 있다 (ungkeurigo itda))
çekim: geçmiş 웅크렸다
köken: Originally an emphatic aspirated variant of earlier and now rare 웅그리다 (unggeurida), part of a wider family of movement-related verbs from an ancient ideophonic root /om~um/. Compare 움직이다 (umjigida, “to move”), 오므리다 (omeurida, “to cup one's hands”), 움츠리다 (umcheurida, “to shrink; to cringe”).
köken: From Proto-Vietic *guːrʔ ~ *kuːrʔ; cognates with Muong củi, Chut cûl, Chut [Maleng] kuːl⁴ and Tho [Pong] kuːl⁴. Also compare Angkorian Old Khmer កុរ៑ (kur), a loan from an unidentified Vietic source, whence Khmer កុរ (kol, “Year of the Pig”) and Thai กุน (gun, “Year of the Pig”). (Ferlus, 2013) Additionally, 亥 (OC *[ɡ]ˤəʔ) (B-S) (SV: hợi) is a possible cognate, see there for more.
From Proto-Finnic *kükkü. Possibly ultimately sound-symbolic, but may also be a loan from Proto-Germanic *hukkōną or *hūkaną (compare Old Norse húka). Cognate with Estonian kükk, Karelian kyykkä, Livonian kikkõ and Veps kükta.