Abstract
The purpose of this study is to find the etymology of terms used in sewing and tailoring in Korean. Sewing is the craft of fastening or attaching objects using stitches made with a needle and thread. The sewing terms in Old Korean were closely related to the method of sewing and the shape of stitches. The terms can be divided into two categories: one with the suffix “-jil” and the other with the suffix “-gi”. The differences between the two terms are as follows: Technically, the method with “-jil” is more basic than the one with “-gi”, historically started to be used earlier than the one with “-gi”, and syntactically, regarding the nominality of a word, the terms with “-jil” have stronger than those with “-gi”. Examples are “hom-jil” derived from “hwida;”, “bag-eum-jil” from “bagda”, “gamchim-jil” from “gamchida” or “gamachida”, “sichim-jil”, from “sichida”, “gonggreu-gi” from “gonggeulda”, “hwigamchi-gi” from “hwigamachida” or “hwigamda”, “tteu-gi” from “tteuda”, “sangchim-jil” from a word meaning “running stitch”, etc. Among several sewing terms, “baktta”, “tteuda”, and “giptta” are used in a various way with both a broad meaning and a narrow meaning.
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