Ri ri ri~ words that end with ri

[esjayanya]

Hi, I felt that there hasn't been a vocabulary list post in the community for a while, so I thought I would start one. (  I hope you don't mind, ?)

The rules(?) are simple: words that end with the syllable 리! There's actually quite a few of them.

I'll start off with these:

유리 glass
파리 fly (the insect), OR Paris, the capital city of France

Um

Comments

[esjayanya]

Well;; I squeezed my brain out trying to come up with stuff that hadn't been listed yet, and overdid it a bit @_@;;; (plus, I waited... a day..before seriously going at it?;;)

As for your question, I had no definite answer so I asked wikipedia:

So basically, the English title "Prime Minister" links to "수상" in the Korean wiki, and the Korean "총리" links to the English title of "Premier." But, as the definition of "Premier" says,

"In many nations, the title "premier" is used interchangeably with "prime minister"

and the definition of "총리" says,

"대한민국에서는 일반적으로 수상(首相)의 호칭으로 대용된다." (quick trans: "In ROK, it is generally used to address a 수상 / used to substitute the title of 수상"),

so, I think it is 'almost' interchangeable.

Here's a good example that the terms 수상 and 총리 are interchangeable:
the article in Korean and in English. Quoting from the Korean one,

"수상 관저(首相官邸)는 일본의 총리가 집무를 행하는 건물이다. 총리대신 관저(総理大臣官邸)라고도 한다.
and the translation for this from the English article:

"The Sōri-daijin Kantei (総理大臣官邸 ), also known as the Sōri Kantei (総理官邸 ?) or simply Kantei (官邸 ), is the office of the Prime Minister of Japan."

You can see that they used both 수상 and 총리 in the same sentence.

One big thing to note is that the Korean Prime Minister (who is appointed by the President) is called a 국무총리- Korea has a 대통령 and a 총리 but not a 수상. (I'm not too big on government structures, but perhaps 수상 might be used Only when the Prime Minister is the head of the state?)
Japan and Britain's Prime Ministers are called 수상 or 총리, but using google, the search terms 일본 수상 and 영국 수상 bring up roughly twice as many hits compared to the searches for 일본 총리 and 영국 총리.

mmm..;; not really a definitive answer. Is this good enough? T_T;~

[squishibananas]

Wow, I really appreciate you having researched this for me! I only asked because I sometimes have to explain that Australia isn’t independent of England yet so instead of a president, we have a prime minister. I thought I might have been using the wrong word all this time. Hmm… but now another problem has arisen, since we have both a Prime Minister AND a premier. The Prime Minister lords over the whole nation, the Premiers are assigned as heads of each state (like the difference between presidents and governors). I’ll stick with 총리, 수상 = Prime Minister, eh?

I used to flood these vocabulary lists with words once upon a time, but I think I was scaring all the children away so I only post a few now.

[esjayanya]

Glad to be of help. :D
I know that the governors(?) of each Do in Korea are called 도지사, and the governors of U.S. states are called 주지사 (since state = 주 in Korean.) ...I am ignorant about most things regarding Australia, (it's my first time hearing/reading about a position called a "premier" ), aaaand, looking at this table here (you have governors AND premiers T_T??;;@_@~ ), I'm totally happy with your conclusion..

(sigh.) I better cut down on my super-long replies. I'm tiring myself out and end up sounding preachy;;... Anyways, it was interesting to try to get to the root of it. ^^ Thanks for pointing it out. :)

but I think I was scaring all the children away so I only post a few now.

-> Mmmm. I don't want to scare people away either, but I also feel that it might be more beneficial in the long run to have as many words as possible, so that there's more vocab to look at when people get to that stage? As a compromise, I'm trying to wait until more people had a chance to give it a try. :/

(sorry for the super-slow reply; somehow it was a bit difficult to type all this -_-~~ )