English
jungseong
Jungseong comes from Korean 중성 ‘medial sound’.
- Koreanmodern중성jungseong‘medial sound’
- Englishearliest quotation 2018jungseong
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Koreanmodern중성jungseong‘medial sound’
- Englishearliest quotation 2018jungseong
Earliest quotation: 2018, Taebum Kim, Korean-English Dictionary 17000: 17: “[…] and one vowel called the medial (jungseong; syllable…”
Every English word from Korean 중성
Today it means
noun (in Korean or the hangul script) a vowel or diphthong in the syllable nucleus
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Korean 중성 / jungseong