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[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

Is there a chance that bread ( in Korean, ��) comes from the French word for bread, pain? Based on the way French words are written and pronounced in hangeul, this seems oddly coincidental. �� might be more accurate, but history has shown that �ܷ� �� is often phoneticized poorly.

Sparkles*_*

[Gwangjuboy]

I heard that the word came from Portuguese. Can't remember from whom I heard that though. I was also led to believe that the Japanese word is similar too.

[mithridates]

I think so. The Japanese also say 'pan' for bread...considering there was no bread in Korea before Europeans came, I think that's right.

Let's check...yeah, it's from Portugeuse. (sp?)

��2 [<���������� pao] <����> ������� ��� ���縦 ���ų� �Ǽ� ���� ����. <���Ǿ�> �麸. ����. �綱.
��԰� �� ���. �Ң������δ� �� �� ����. ���� ������ �޶�.

[Zenpickle]

I was thinking the same thing. And also, most European words for 'bread' come from the Latin word 'panis.'

(You mean two grueling years of Latin served some use?)

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

[tzechuk]

My husband said it does. I also wondered when I first came wy bread was called bbang and he said the French brought it over first or something?

Same with radio - they pronounce it rah-dee-o, the way the Germans pronounce it because Koreans went to Germany to learn about it first.

[endofthewor1d]

once i looked up 'sex' in an english-korean dictionary, and (sorry, but i'm in japan and therefore can't type the hangul) it said sek suh. i wonder if the europeans brought that as well.

[noelinkorea]

...my lovely Korean linguistic book tells me that originally 'radio' in (South) Korean was spelled and pronounced 'na-di-o', reflecting the non-use of ��in the initial position of words...though �� has since become more common in Korean in initial positions with the influx of foreign words (�ܷ���).

[vlcupper]

[tzechuk]