국어 ‘값(價)’ 평가 형용사 어휘 체계의 발달에 대하여

Abstract

This study exercised developments and changes of lexical systems of adjectives for price evaluation in Korean language. There were not only ‘bit-ssada(>bis-ssada)’, ‘ssada’ but also lexical systems of adjectives for price evaluation in middle and modern Korean period based on a bilingual dictionary of the 18th century. An expression of meaning of high price was ‘nolda’ in Native Korean and ‘gui(貴)-hada’ in Sino-Korean. An expression of meaning of low price was ‘heunhada’ in Native Korean and ‘chyeon(賤)-hada’ in Sino-Korean. There were ‘ssada/bit-ssada’ which meant middle meanings between them. It is believed that ‘nolda’, ‘guihada’, ‘heunhada’ and ‘chyeonhada’ could express a ‘price’ indirectly based on their scarcity value in traditional price expression because they meant quantities or frequencies of objects rather than price evaluation. This uniqueness about traditional price expressions was assumed to bring about significant changes, which meant the emergence of ‘bi-ssada’, extreme change of meaning of ‘ssada’ and reorganization of lexical systems of price evaluation centering around ‘bi-ssada’, ‘ssada’ in the late 19th century.