三國史記 地理志의 百濟 地名語 硏究 - 韓·日 地名語 比較의 觀點에서 -

Abstract

The place names in Samguksagi Jiriji claim huge value as valuable materials to shed some light onto the linguistic characteristics of ancient Three Kingdoms along with Hyangga. This study examined the place names of the Baekje regions before unification to understand the uses and meanings of the characters used in the names. The study also examined their relations with ancient Japanese, Japanese place names, and Ainu language to understand their influences on Japanese place names. As a result, ‘긔’(城), which seems to be in a paronym relationship with ‘忽,’ became an obsolete word due to the influence of ‘잣’(城) but was adopted in Japanese place names and left its traces in them. It was also confirmed that the Baekje's place names that led to ‘빗그-’(斜) and ‘벼’(崖) in Middle Korean were adopted as ‘ひだ’, ‘ひら’, and ‘ほき․ほけ’(崖) in Japanese place names and ‘pira’(崖) in Ainu place names. In addition, the investigator discovered very many Japanese(Ainu) place names that were similar to the sound images of ancient place names and matched them in meaning, which indicates that there were loan relations between them.