Where does “먹이그물” come from?

먹이그물 (Korean) comes from Korean 먹이, from Korean —이, from Middle Korean 이 — person.

먹이그물 (Korean): food web

Definitions

  1. food web

Ancestry of “먹이그물”, step by step

먹이그물 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Korean 먹이

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Korean먹이food (often of animals); feed
2Korean—이For non-honorific nouns ending in consonants, the nominative case particle marking it as the subject of a verb or adjective; see also Usage Notes
3Middle Korean이person

via Korean 그물

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Korean그물net, fishnet
Every word from Middle Korean 이 →Every word from Korean —이 →Every word from Korean 먹이 →