-ㅅ

Etymology 1
Sound-symbolic.

Etymology 2
A non-productive noun, adjective and prefix forming suffix.

Alternative forms
These are the prescribed orthographic variants of - in Sejong's original vision of the Hangul script, represented in the very early texts Hunmin jeongeum eonhae (1446) and Yongbi eocheonga (1447) which were supervised by the king himself.



This reflects the allomorphy taken by the particle, discussed below. This proved to be very cumbersome in practice, not being fully implemented even in the two early texts themselves, and was abandoned almost immediately after Sejong's death. Virtually all subsequent Middle Korean texts uniformly use -.

Etymology
From.

Pronunciation

 * Tensing of the subsequent obstruent
 * Tensing of the subsequent obstruent
 * Tensing of the subsequent obstruent

Particle

 * 1) of, -s;