Korean

Noun

널 • ‎(neol)

1. panel, board, plank
2. seesaw, teeter-totter : a structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down
3. coffin, casket

Synonyms

• 널빤지 (neolppanji)
• 널판지 (neolpanji)
• 널판대기 (neolpandaegi)

Derived terms

널 뛰기 or acrobatic seesawing.

• 널다리 (neol-dari) wooden footbridge
• 널뛰다 (neol-ttwida) To play the Korean traditional seesaw, literally "to jump on the plank".
• 널 뛰기 (neol-ttwigi) Korean acrobatic seesawing, or makeshift jumping on the plank.
• 널 판(板) (neol pan) The neol in native Korean is the same as the pan in Sino-Korean. Its compound neolpan regardless of the suffixes almost sounds like an anagram of panel. Perhaps it is needed to avoid confusion with the coffin.

Related terms

• 너르다 ‎(neoreuda) (neoreuda) To be wide
• 널다 ‎(neolda) (neolda) To be wide (obsolete spelling)
• 넓다 ‎(neolda) (neolbda) To be wide

See also

• 그네 ‎(geune)뛰기 (geune-ttwigi) swing riding
• 줄 ‎(jul)타기 (jul-tagi) tightrope walking
• 줄 ‎(jul)다리기 (jul-darigi) tug-of-war