비
/pi/
KORECE → TR
Tanım
•rain · the suit of rain or willow in hwatu playing cards, representing the month of December
Etimoloji
First attested in the Jīlín lèishì (鷄林類事 / 계림유사), 1103, as Late Old Korean 霏微 (Yale: *piWi). Hence the word was originally disyllabic; Alexander Vovin believes it was borrowed from Tungusic, in this case, it would ultimately be from Proto-Tungusic *pigi- (“to blow; rain”). However, Hyunkyu Shin suggests that remaining editions of Jīlín lèishì misinterpreted the original, that 微 was originally a…