Where does “해킹하다” come from?

해킹하다 (Korean) comes from Korean 해킹, from English hacking, from Middle English hackynge, from Middle English -ing, from Old English -ing, from Old English -tūn, from Old English tūn, from Proto-West Germanic tūn — smoke; mist, haze.

해킹하다 (Korean): to hack

Definitions

  1. to hack

Ancestry of “해킹하다”, step by step

해킹하다 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Korean 해킹

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Korean해킹hacking
2EnglishhackingShort and interrupted, broken, jerky; hacky;...
3Middle EnglishhackyngeDicing; the cutting up of food into bits; To...
4Middle English-ingForms gerunds from verbs, typically referring to...
5Old English-ingForming nouns from verbs, indicating action,...
6Old English-tūnhomestead, village, town
7Old Englishtūnenclosure, yard; place; dwelling
8Proto-West Germanictūnfence
9Proto-Germanictūnąfence; enclosure
10Gaulishdunumfort; hill, hillfort
11Proto-Celticdūnomstronghold, rampart
12Proto-Indo-Europeandʰewh₂-smoke; mist, haze

via Korean ―하다

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Korean―하다
Every word from Proto-Indo-European dʰewh₂-Every word from Proto-Celtic dūnomEvery word from Gaulish dunum