삼다

Etymology 1
From, from.

When expressing the sense of "to take A as B", Old Korean appears to have natively used the expression " A B ", with A taking the accusative particle  and B combining directly with the verb *sam- without an intervening particle.

Old Korean texts of any reasonable length are all close translations of a Chinese original, and the Literary Chinese text often used in the construction " A  B " for the sense of "to take A as B". These constructions were translated into Old Korean as " A  B ", with A continuing to take the accusative particle but now becoming the object of the verb  instead, with the literal meaning "to take as B while using A".

In Middle Korean, however, "to take A as B" is generally expressed as " A B  ", with B taking the accusative particle  and A now taking the instrumental particle. An Ye-ri theorizes that this was the result of syntactic influence from the Chinese " A B " construction, as Chinese  was usually perceived as being equivalent to the Korean instrumental particle. Thus speakers may have initially imitated the Chinese syntax by using the instrumental particle for A rather than the accusative, after which B was reanalyzed as being the direct object of.

For unknown reasons, the particles were switched in the early twentieth century, producing the contemporary Korean construction " A B  ".

Verb

 * 1)  to take as; to forge a relationship; to make (a thing) of; to have (a thing or a person as)

Etymology 2
Verbalisation of.

Verb

 * 1) to make (sandals)
 * 2) to spin (hemp)

Etymology 3
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