-보다

Etymology
From.

Grammaticalization pathway: "after seeing [noun A], [noun B] is [adjective]" > "[noun B] is more [adjective] than [noun A]". This has occurred in other languages; compare.

First attested in the mid-eighteenth century, displacing previous by the nineteenth century.

Particle

 * 1) than;

Derived terms

 * 보다