"Bart Mathias" <mathias@hawaii.edu> wrote in message 
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> Curt Fischer wrote:
>> Danny Wilde wrote:

>>>Any comments or other ideas for Japanese words of possible Korean origin?

>> http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~coach/kor/jpkr/

> In this list, チョンガー for sure.  I have my doubts about the rest.
> The ノッポ one is interesting.  "Nopho" would be a very blunt way of
> saying "it's high, he's tall," etc., in Korean.  Then the question is,
> how and why it got to Japan.  I wonder if it's in Shogakkan.
>
> I've seen オンドル in dictionaries, and that's obviously from Korean
> "ontol" (or "ondol" depending on how you romanize).  Were they ever used
> in Japanese houses, I wonder.

It seems like there aren't as many Korean origin words as I'd imagined. I 
was thinking of adding another "Korean words" page to the 
German/Portugese/Dutch ones but maybe there aren't enough words to justify 
it. I was quite surprised at the number of French words in Edict, however.