-오

오 -오- Korean Etymology See the main entry. Pronunciation Suffix suffix ko -소 semi-formal style sentence-final suffix Post-vowel and post-ko ㄹ allomorphic Usage notes For comments regarding the relationship between ko -소 and ko -오 in the imperative mood, see "Usage notes" at ko -소. Middle Korean Etymology 1 Pronunciation okm /o/ + Harmonic pair Yin-form okm -우 -wu Yang-formokm -오 -wo Suffix okm suffix -wo okm -우 -wu adverb-deriving suffix Yang-vowel Etymology 2 Lenition in voiced environments. See Appendix:Koreanic reconstructions for more. Pronunciation okm /ɣó/ Suffix okm suffix -Gwó 오〮 okm -고〮 -kwó verbal connective suffix Lenited allomorphic in certain voiced environments Usage notes This allomorph only occurs after coda liquid /-l/, a falling diphthong, the copula okm -이다 이 i-, or the passivizing auxiliary okm 디다 디 ti-. The velar stop is preserved before all other vowels.Lee Ki-Moon Ramsey S. Robert A History of the Korean Language Cambridge University Press 2011 978-0-521-66189-8 145 Etymology 3 Lenition in voiced environments. See Appendix:Koreanic reconstructions for more. Pronunciation okm /(ɣ)ó/ Particle okm particle -(G)wó 오〮 okm -고〮 -kwo non-polar interrogative marker Lenited allomorphic in certain voiced environments Usage notes This allomorph is obligatory after /-j/, /-i/, or /-l/ (note that the irrealis suffix /-lQ/ is excluded here). It sometimes appears before other vowels as well. It was sometimes pronounced as /-ɣo/ and sometimes as /-o/, as can be perceived from orthographic variation between e.g. okm ᄒᆞ리〮오〮 hò-lí-Gwó and okm ᄒᆞ료〮 hò-ly-wó. See also References