Where does “벌이하다” come from?

벌이하다 (Korean) comes from Korean 벌이, from Korean —이, from Middle Korean 이 — person.

벌이하다 (Korean): to earn money, to make money

Definitions

  1. to earn money, to make money

Ancestry of “벌이하다”, step by step

벌이하다 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Korean 벌이

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Korean벌이earnings; moneymaking
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 Koreanperson

via Korean ―하다

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Korean―하다
Every word from Middle Korean Every word from Korean —이Every word from Korean 벌이