ᄀᆞᆷᄌᆞᆨ

Etymology
Regularly derived from the verb "to close one's eyes", modern.

This ideophone had two forms, the yang-vowel form and the extremely rare yin-vowel form, attested only once. had a sense broader than the verb from which it was derived: besides the image of closing one's eyes, it could also evoke movement in general, including the budging of the body and the metaphoric movement of the heart when emotionally agitated.

In the Early Modern era of Korean (1600—1900), these two terms diversified into dozens of nuanced ideophones relating in many different ways to the closing of the eyes, to the movement of the body, or to emotional surprise, as seen in the table below. This diversification was brought about by a combination of yin-yang vowel ablaut, consonant tensing, and consonant alternation.

At the same time, initial tensing occurred for sound-symbolic reasons. The variants relating to bodily movement were influenced by the family of ideophones, explaining why they were unaffected.

Ideophone

 * 1) while closing one's eyes
 * 2) budgingly; while moving one's body in a single motion
 * 3) shockedly; in an emotionally agitated manner