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A Study on Korean Etymology
Kimoon Lee
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Abstract
Kwon Tok-kyu (Aeryu, Hanbyol) has been known as the editor of Choson Omun Kyongwi(1923). But the fact that he was the first scholar who got interested in Korean etymology has been neglected. No document is left to reveal what made him develop interest in etymology except his Choson Yugi, which indirectly shows his keen interest in history. The amount of Kwon's writing on Korean etymology is not impressive: his papers written in the1930s are reiterations of those of the preceding decade in a sense. The scholastic acumen he demonstrated in them was, however, impressive enough to change the course of Korean etymology...