Where does “-ㅅ” come from?

-ㅅ (Middle Korean) comes from Old Korean 叱 — Genitive case marker, chiefly for inanimate nouns.

-ㅅ (Middle Korean): of, -s

Definitions

  1. of, -s

Ancestry of “-ㅅ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Korean叱Genitive case marker, chiefly for inanimate nouns

Words derived from “-ㅅ”

Every word from Old Korean 叱 →