阿耶

Interjection

 * 1) o; oh; ah; alas

Usage notes
In a three-stanza Old Korean hyangga poem, this interjection occurred obligatorily between the second and third stanzas (or, from an alternate viewpoint, at the beginning of the third stanza). It was sometimes not spelled out explicitly but simply marked with the Chinese word.

Reconstruction notes
Conventionally reconstructed as *aya, after the reconstructed Middle Chinese pronunciations. No transparent Middle Korean reflex is known. Probably not directly related to Middle Korean, or to Modern Korean ; similar interjections are cross-linguistically extremely common.