Dai-Myung-Ryul-Jik-Hae is a code of laws translated with explanatory notes by Cho Jun, Ko Sa-kyong, Kim Ji, etc. The code is no more than a version in terms of "I-doo" from Dai-Myung-Ryul in Ming Dynasty, China, but has had crucial influence not merel...
Dai-Myung-Ryul-Jik-Hae is a code of laws translated with explanatory notes by Cho Jun, Ko Sa-kyong, Kim Ji, etc. The code is no more than a version in terms of "I-doo" from Dai-Myung-Ryul in Ming Dynasty, China, but has had crucial influence not merely upon politics and administration but upon publishing culture and character writing by dint of its publication in Korea.
What is called "I-doo" is a kind of borrowed notation from Chinese characters, designating a specific expression utilized with the intention of recording administrative documents chiefly by official clerks at the earliest from the period of the Three States at latest to Yi Dynasty as well as to Koryo Dynasty.
This notation which writes Korean words by the use of pronunciation of Chinese characters has considerable incomplete and irrational aspects, but serves as significant data needed for conducting researches in the national language in the early middle ages in that writing Korean words at that time largely depended on it before the creation of the Korean script.
This study abstracted all the "I-doo" vocabulary recorded in Dai-Myung-Ryul-Jik-Hae, making an attempt to clarify its phraseology, meanings and applying laws. The characteristics of Dai-Myung-Ryul-Jik-Hae are as follows:
1) The "I-doo" vocabulary of Dai-Myung-Ryul-Jik-Hae has an affinity to the basic system of the borrowed expression of Chinese characters.
2) The subjective auxiliary 'i' is expressed with ' 益只 ', ' 戈只 ', ' 亦 ', ' 是 '. What is worth considering here is that ' 是 ' is a character solely used for writing the copula 'i' before these data are provided.
3) Dai-Myung-Ryul-Jik-Hae is the first I-doo literature in which 'a'( 良 ) and 'a'( Y ) are employed in expressing the case particle.
4) The suffixes to form a derivative adverb include ' 亦 ', ' 良 ', ' 只 ', ' 于 ', ' 以 ', ' 如 ', etc.
5) The suffixes such as ' 於 ', ' 味 ', ' 內乎 ', etc.
easily found in the literature prior to Dai-Myung-Ryul-Jik-Hae, are not found at all, and no example is quoted on ' 良於爲 ', ' 是於爲 ', ' 乎味 ', ' 在味 ', '是內乎'. It seems that these were arranged in the process of publishing Dai-Myung-Ryul-Jak-Hae.
6) As far as negatives are concerned, there are '不冬', '不得', and '安徐' (meaning prohibition) that are combined with ' 爲 ', and ' 不喩 ' connected to ' 是 ' alone.
7) The honorific title written as ' 賜 ' in the literature prior to these data is given as ' 敎 ' or '敎是'.
8) A single word makes a shift from a noun to a verb and vice versa from time to time.
9) The gerund suffixes '-ㄴ' and '-ㄹ' come in the form that ' 乎 ' and ' 在 ' are combined with the suffix of the previousd word.
10) '臥乎' indicates ' 는 ', (nin) a present tense; '加乎' ' 던 ' (d□n) for recollecting the past ; '爲在' a present perfect tense; ' 爲有 ' (j□t), a past tense; '爲行' the progress of movements.
11) These data show that when Chinese characters are read by their traditional Chinese pronunciation, the original words are lost in I-doo.
12) The conservative notation of the vocabulary included in Dai-Myung-Ryul-Jik-Hae points out that these data serve as a turning point in the developmental history of I-doo.
13) I-doo in Dai-Myung-Ryul-Jik-Hae is the final arrangement of I-doo in Koryo Dynasty, and it can be said that it presents a new standard for I-doo in Yi-Dynasty.
This study includes a lot of Chinese vocabulary that has by no means been treated thus far as I-doo vocabulary. This attempt could find its significance by finding out some original words from the newly included Chinese vocabulary.