도우미

Korean

Etymology

도움 (doum, “assistance”, substantive form of 돕다 (dopda, “to help”)) +‎ -이 (-i, agentive noun suffix). Coined around 1992 to refer to helpers for the Expo '93 event, possibly a calque of English helper.

Pronunciation

Romanizations
Revised Romanization?doumi
Revised Romanization (translit.)?doumi
McCune–Reischauer?toumi
Yale Romanization?towumi

Noun

도우미 • (doumi)

  1. helper
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