여덟

Etymology
🇨🇬 demonstrates that the immediate pre-fifteenth century form was *ᄋᆢᄃᆞᆲ. The Seoul dialect underlying the Middle Korean corpus had a merger of and  which was still relatively recent by the invention of the alphabet in the 1440s. Beyond this, the ultimate reconstruction of the ancestral Koreanic root for "eight" is difficult. See a list of relevant attestations and forms in Appendix:Historical Koreanic numerals.

Pronunciation

 * In Contemporary Korean, the underlying phonemes of 여덟 is 여덜, without the consonant cluster implied by the orthography. Hence, it is pronounced with even when followed by a vowel-initial particle: 여덟이 is realized as 여더리 , not 여덜비 . Nonetheless, the latter pronunciation is still considered prescriptively correct, although virtually never followed in practice.

Numeral

 * 1)   eight