겨울

Etymology
Compare dialect forms, , , , , , , , , , etc.).

(2001) asserts it is probably cognate to 🇨🇬. However this theory is unreasonable for the following reasons:
 * The 2nd month of East Asian lunar calendar is when the vernal equinox occurs, or the middle month of spring, which is never considered as winter.
 * Vowel of Koreanic is consistently transcribed in  in Japanese, until its pronunciation changed to [jʌ̹] as the standard Korean in the early modern times (cf., ,  ).

Noun

 * 1) winter