Reconstruction talk:Proto-Korean/peLkey

Compound?
, I'm curious if this might be a compound of + something? Though it does seem a bit odd, semantically, where the simpler portion is more specific. ‑‑ Eiríkr Útlendi │Tala við mig 19:29, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * , Middle Korean has rising pitch which implies an earlier bisyllabic form,  or, so this isn't possible. There is also a Middle Korean word , clearly a compound of some sort from Old Korean , where the first element may have the same origin as 벌〯. In that case we would have  as the ancestor of 벌〯 ( >  >  > ), which also matches Old Japanese  for "bee".--Karaeng Matoaya (talk) 21:29, 3 November 2020 (UTC)