Where does “좋아요하다” come from?

좋아요하다 (Korean) comes from Korean 좋아요, from Korean -요, from Korean —이, from Middle Korean 이 — person.

좋아요하다 (Korean): to press the "like" button

Definitions

  1. to press the "like" button

Ancestry of “좋아요하다”, step by step

좋아요하다 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Korean 좋아요

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Korean좋아요like
2Korean-요A particle attached to
3Korean—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
4Middle Korean이person

via Korean ―하다

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Korean―하다—
Every word from Middle Korean 이 →Every word from Korean —이 →Every word from Korean -요 →