The place names of ‘san(산, meaning a mountain)’ is relevant to our daily lives and living cultures. There are many traditional place names using ‘san(산)’ in Daejeon city. Hence this thesis studied the features of traditional place names using ‘san(산)’ in two aspects.
First, the study considered the forms and features of the back place name morpheme. As the result, there are various cases of the back place name morphemes using ‘san(산)’ such as ‘san(산), moe(뫼), moe(뫼), bong(봉), maru(마루), nal(날), nalmang(날망), naldeung(날등), deung(등), neungseon(능선), empty morpheme(ø)’. One of them, ‘San(산)’ is a typical morpheme and its allomorph can be ‘sal(살)’ ‘Sal(살)’ is restricted to precede a bilabial ‘/m/ㅁ’ such as ‘moe(뫼), maru(마루)’
In addition to this, the verification of ‘moe(뫼)’, a synonym of ‘san(산)’ is distinctive because ‘moe(뫼)’ is a fossilized morpheme by And its allomorphs are ‘me(메)~mae(매)~mi(미)’ reflecting phonological characters of the regional dialect.
Whereas there was a case which becomes detail names broad indicating broad meaning of san to be a back morpheme of place name. ‘Bong봉(峰)’ is productive and ‘maru(마루)’ its Daejeon dailect ‘mallim(말림)’ are back morphemes of ‘san(산)’ as well as ‘nal(날), nalmang(날망), nalmaengi(날맹이), naldeung(날등), deung(등), neungseon(능선)’. Specially, ‘maru(마루), nalmang(날망), naldeung(날등)’, etc are in common use.
Second, this study considered the formations and characters of traditional place names ‘san(산)’. The 2nd, 3rd formations of place names, so-called expanded place names, are distinctive by adding the back place name morpheme in two ways. one is a case to change the place name’s form. The original place name(1st) become the front place name morpheme and another back place morpheme is added for example, ‘dwit+gol(뒷+ 골, the 1st place name)’→ ‘dwitgol(뒷골, the front place name morpheme)’ + ‘san(산, the back place name morpheme)’ → ‘dwitgolsan(뒷골산, the 2nd place name)’. The other, the back place name morpheme is added without changing the form of place name.
This is a distinctive formation of place name tautological structure. There are various cases such as ‘mulmoe-san(물뫼산)’, ‘moe(뫼)’ and ‘san(산)’ are tautological, ‘saekgyeongsan-bongui(색경산봉우리), galmi-bong(갈미봉), baemsan-nal(뱀산날)’ are subsets of ‘san(산), moe(뫼)’. Additionally, ‘wangbong-nal(왕봉날), sirubong-nalmang(시루봉날망), yong-naldeung(용날등), jin-deungnal(진등날)’ are tautological of detail names of ‘san(산)’. The reason of tautological structure is to complement and reinforce the meaning of 1st place name.