This research aims for investigation of the words of place-names found here and there in Puan district from a point of the Korean language view. And it has been tried to analyze the typical formation process according to the flexibility among the word...
This research aims for investigation of the words of place-names found here and there in Puan district from a point of the Korean language view. And it has been tried to analyze the typical formation process according to the flexibility among the words of them, also to find out the detailed flexibility relations by showing their distribution charts.
Here are several fact I could reach based on this research.
1. It could be found out the words of place-names in Puan district generally named after the physical geographic setting, which is supported by the eographic feature mixed with three elements : fields, mountains, and seas. Moreover, there still remains many place-names of Puangun which are well preserved without any change from the influence of foreign origin words because of their adherent and conservative nature. So they must be good research materials for the study of Korean language throughout the times.
2. Major prefixes of the names used in Puan district are ; gan˘un-, gama-, gak-, gat-, gae-, gora-, goe-, kkot-, dae-, d˘ok-, dok-, ttan-, dwi-, (dwit-), ttong-, bat-, sae-, s˘on-, ut-, jae-, jin-, tong-, han- etc. and major surfixes of them are ; -gae, -g˘ori, -gogae, -gol, -kkoji, -gorashil, -kk˘um, -nae, -non, -dumb˘ong, -tt˘um, -dari, -d˘ung, -mae, -mi, -bawi, -baemi, -shil, -y˘o, -yi, -jae, -t˘o, -etc.
3. Considering phonological points,there are palatalizational phenomena such as 'ㄱ' /giy˘ok/ and 'ㄷ' /dig˘ut/ but not 'ㅎ' /hi˘ut/ among palatalizations in Puan place-names.
4. It is examined that the change of a single vowel in Puan's place-names was moved from the vowel having big mouth-open-degree to the one having small mouth-open-degree as you see a>ae, ae>e, ˘o>e, u>i, ˘o>i, ae>i, e>i, and from a front vowel to a back vowel such as a > ae, ˘o>ae, u>i, e>i, ae>i.
5. This paper has also been shown that being analyzed the formation organization of small place-names from the view of a theory of making new words, it is generally devided with 25 things, composed of those of the language of our own (46.8%) that is a little more, those of a Chinese letters (45.9%), and those mixed with the former and the latter(7.3%).
That was caused by the idea of the populace's convenience, so our native languages shall disappear overwhelmed by the words written in Chinese letters unless there is any institutional coutermeasure's establishment.
6. It could also be found out not only nouns of frequency rate (94.7%) that has large part, but also adjectives of the frequency rate (2.4%), a few verbs, numberals, pro-nouns, and adverbs when small place-names were divided into a word class. That is deeply related to the formation of the topography, and means the expressions of fragmentary behavior and our ancestor's calculation ability about number were a little reflected.
7. It could clealy be understood for us to follow the intimacy relation of the origin of a word and the meaning of a word by systematizing universal quality about the individual place-names that we could rarely make out through the type examination according to the flexibility of the place-names.
8. The style of most lives were based on an agriculture since old times because Puan-gun consists of a plain and a seside district. Therefore, among the factors of place-names, although there are the most terms related to nature objects, a compasss direction, location and the topography, they have quite a few words directly related to a life utensil in every day life. We can also see the place-name 'yong' (means dragon) much among those related to animals, which is caused by our national strong worship ceremony about auspicious animals from the beginning.
9. It is possible to approach the identification of other place-names and the names shown in other documents, through the examination of the small place-names, moreover it should be done to make great efforts constantly as a branch of study on the words of place-name linguistics.
10. It's a pity that the names of the past are disappearing more and more because the place-names also changes throughout the times, even though they are sometimes used transmitted from generation to generation. Therefore, it is one of the most important thing for all of us to record and keep our vanishing native place-names through the systematic excavation, investigation, research and the collection of them.