Where does “통통하다” come from?

통통하다 (Korean) comes from Korean 통통, from Korean 통 — "suffix used to form nouns referring to parts of...

통통하다 (Korean): short and fat

Definitions

  1. short and fat

Ancestry of “통통하다”, step by step

통통하다 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Korean 통통

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Korean통통
2Korean"suffix used to form nouns referring to parts of...

via Korean ―하다

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Korean―하다
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