A Study on Jamokai(子母蓋)

子母蓋의 硏究

The purpose of this research was to ideatify and to trace the origin and meaning of jamokai(子母蓋). Comparative linguistic analytical approaches were used for the analysis of this study. Summaries of findings in this research are as follows : 1. There wese a number of phonetic value for jamokai (子母蓋) in Chinese. 2. The term, jamokai was derived from Hebrew. 3. The meaning of jamokai of Koryo was originated from Hebrew word meaning woman's veil. 4. The word jamokai was related to Perian, Arakic, Indian. 5. It is considered that tsi-ma-kai (치마개) was transliterated to tsi-m∂u-kai (子母蓋) in Chinese by the author of Keirim Yusa (鷄林類事). 6. The word jamokai (子母蓋) of Koryo was not related to Chinese.