불
/puɭ/
KORECE → TR
Tanım
•fire; flame · fire (as a disaster) · light
Etimoloji
First attested in the Jīlín lèishì (鷄林類事 / 계림유사), 1103, as Late Old Korean 孛. Possibly cognate with Old Japanese 火 (pi₂) (< Proto-Japonic *poy), as well as compounding form 火 (po) and eastern Old Japanese 火 (pu). Compare Middle Korean 븕다〮 (Yale: pùlk-tá, “to be red”, whence modern 붉다 (bukda)), which is believed to be derived from the word at some earlier stage of the language (Lee and Ramsey…