無叱

Etymology
Given the usual cross-linguistic source for negative verbs, some have speculated a compound etymology with the second component being its antonym.

Adjective

 * 1) to not have; to not be [at]

Reconstruction notes
This form is attested a total of seventy-seven times across all five known brush-written interpretative  glosses to the Buddhist canon, composed between the tenth and thirteenth centuries.

Although obscured by the essentially logographic orthography, the Old Korean verb stem for "to not have" is believed to have been disyllabic:


 * Middle Korean has a bimoraic rising tone, which is the result of the merger of two syllables, the first with a low tone and the other with a high tone. In particular, it belongs to the rare regular rising-pitch class (Class 5), which suggests that the vowel that was lost in the merger of syllables had been in the middle of the verb stem rather than at its end (the loss of a stem-final vowel should have produced a Class 6 verb).
 * A more phonologically precise shape of the word is provided in , a twelfth-century wordlist of Korean terms as transcribed by a Chinese ambassador. Leishi writes the Old Korean word for Chinese as . This appears to be a copyist's error for, a sequence reconstructed in Late Middle Chinese as roughly . As the  ending is believed to transcribe the Old Korean nominalizer , the Old Korean verb stem for "to not be; to not have" must have been pronounced similar to.

Put together, the internal and Leishi evidence suggests a disyllabic verb stem in Old Korean resembling.