림ᄇᆡ
Middle Korean
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /limpʌj/
Noun
림ᄇᆡ (limpoy)
- In the highly archaic fifteenth-century song "Dongdong", the speaker says that she receives virtue in "kwompoy" and fortune in "limpoy". The meaning of this term is uncertain.
- 14th century?, “動動 (Dongdong)”, in 樂學軌範 (Akhak Gwebeom):
- 德으란 곰ᄇᆡ예 받ᄌᆞᆸ고 福으란 림ᄇᆡ예 받ᄌᆞᆸ고 德이여 福이라 호ᄂᆞᆯ 나ᅀᆞ라 오소ᅌᅵ다
- TEK-ulan kwompoy-yey patcopkwo PWOK-ulan limpoy-yey patcopkwo TEK-iye PWOK-ila hwon-ol nazola woswongita
- As for virtue, I receive it in kwompoy; as for fortune, I receive it in limpoy; I have come to present what is called virtue and fortune.
Usage notes
See the coordinate term 곰ᄇᆡ (kwompoy) for theories surrounding the meaning and origin of this term.
Descendants
- ⇒ Early Modern Korean: 곰븨님븨 (gombuinimbui) (derived ideophone)
- Korean: 곰비임비 (gombiimbi, “recurrently, stackingly”)
- ⇒ Early Modern Korean: 님븨곰븨 (nimbuigombui) (derived ideophone)