울릉도, 독도의 옛 이름 대섬[竹島], 솔섬[松島]의 뜻

Abstract

Jukdo(竹島) and Songdo(松島) were the nicknames of Ulleungdo(鬱陵島) and Dokdo(獨島). Koreans have called Jukdo as Dae-seom(대섬) and Songdo as Sol-seom(솔섬). ‘竹(Juk)’ means bamboo and ‘Sol(松)’ means pine, but Dae-seom and Sol-seom have no relations with bamboo and pine.BR Dae[tɛ] is derived from Old Korean *tar meaning ‘big’. Old Korean [*tar] changed into Middle Korean [tai] and finally into Dae[tɛ]. Middle Korean [sol] had its roots in an allophone of Old Korean /*sor/ which was derived from Proto-Altaic *šjabu or Proto-Turkic *sEbre meaning ‘narrow’ or ‘small’. So The meaning of ‘Dae-seom’ is big island and that of ‘Sol-seom’ is small island.BR There was a bridge called Sol-bridge(松橋) in Gyeongju(慶州) in the 13SUPth/SUP century. It was believed to be a pine bridge but its materials were not pine but nut pine. Why did the Koreans call the bridge made of nut pine wood Sol-bridge?BR Long ago Koreans named it ‘Sol-bridge’ signifying small bridge but the descendants thought of ‘sol’ as a word meaning pine only. Another meaning of ‘sol’ was ‘small’ but it had been already forgotten in the 13SUPth/SUP century. The case involving ‘Sol-bridge’ is same with that of ‘Sol-seom’.BR Some Japanese assert that Japan recognized and managed Dokdo(Takeshima) in the 17SUPth/SUP century in advance of Korea but the reverse is the case. Koreans named and managed Dokdo before the 13SUPth/SUP century.