잇다

Verb

 * 1)  to join, to piece together, to connect
 * 2)  to continue, to keep on
 * 3)  to succeed to, to carry on, to inherit
 * 4)  to follow (after)

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to be (at a place); to exist
 * 2) to have
 * 3)  to be (in a state of having done the main verb)

Usage notes

 * The verbal stem usually took the form before a consonant-initial suffix, and  before a vowel-initial one. When followed by certain suffixes, including the dictionary citation suffix, both were permissible. Thus  and  are both permissible.
 * However, and  had a nuanced difference when acting as an auxiliary verb. As an auxiliary, the verb had the meaning of "to exist in a state of having VERBed". But if  was used, the completion of the act in the past was emphasized; if, the continued existence in the present of the completed state was emphasized.
 * In the seventeenth century, the semantic gap widened so that the former eventually morphed into the modern past tense marker, while the latter form survived as an auxiliary. Thus Modern Korean has the doublet and , both coming from the same Middle Korean verb.