不冬

Etymology
Potentially a compound of +  +. Compare 🇨🇬.

Adverb

 * 1) not;

Usage notes
Like Middle and Modern Korean, Old Korean had two forms of verbal negation: a short form, in which the negating adverb simply precedes the main verb, and a long form, in which  negates the verb  similar to English do-support. In Middle and Modern Korean, the short form negates only the verb, while the long form negates the entire clause to which the verb belongs. Currently discovered data is insufficient to say whether this was also true of Old Korean.

The Old Korean long-form negation was different from the Middle Korean form. In Old Korean, it took the following form *-l ANtol ho, as seen in the following hypothetical example with the verb :



In Middle Korean, it usually took the form -ti ani ho-.



In Modern Korean, has merged into the single auxiliary :