뫼

Etymology
from pre-MK.

The more archaic, perhaps dialectal Middle Korean form is attested as part of the place name  in the 1447 . Beyond Korean sources, the earliest attestations are given in eighth-century 🇨🇬 documents as, presumably reflecting the pronunciations of the era. Compare.

The original "mountain" sense has been mostly displaced by Sino-Korean, which began to drive out the native word in the eighteenth century. The "tomb" sense is from the nineteenth century, reinforced by the unrelated Sino-Korean.

Noun

 * 1)  grave
 * 2)  mountain
 * 1)  mountain

Usage notes

 * In the South Korean theoretical standard, the archaic "mountain" sense is covered by the phonetic variant, and should refer solely to the grave. In practice,  is wholly obsolete, while  still sees occasional use in the "mountain" sense.