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An emphatic particle attached to the connective form of verbs.

The meaning of this term is uncertain. It usually appears after other verbs, taking the honorific suffix (*-si), and appears to be some kind of auxiliary. It has no known Middle Korean reflex. Nam Pung-hyeon speculates whether it might be connected to or be a variant of (*KYE-).

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