지명 ‘논산’의 유래에 대한 고찰

Abstract

There are some opponions about the origin and the meaning of the placename ‘Nonsan’ in Chungcheongnam-do. One of them is that ‘Nonsan’ hadbeen named in the process of the revision of administrative districts byJapanese imperialism in 1914. The other one is that in this region there aremany mountains and rice fields so people called that place ‘nonsan’. Becauseof ‘non’ means rice field, ‘san’ means mountain. But most of them includedthe formers were considered to be lacked of scientific bases. This thesis insist three points about above subject by phonological andsynchronical method. First, I found that the place name ‘Nonsan’ was usedsince 18th century via several documents including Joseonwangjosillok(). Second, the name ‘Nonsan( )’ which is written in Chinesecharacter, though nowadays it is written in Korean letter, was derived fromKorean proper name ‘Nonmoe’. Nonmoe is consisit of ‘non’ that means ricefield and ‘moe’ that means mountain, so the name ‘nonmoe’ means that themountain is in the center of rice fields. Finally, the other place name ‘Nolmoe’ is used in unofficial situation i.e. thename of stores, groups, titles of book, and so on was derived from ‘Nonmoe’.