Hangul Syllable Galm

Modern 갊 names grinding as a noun: it combines 갈- (갈다, “to grind”) with noun-forming -ㅁ. A message with only 갊 could mean either form. Middle Korean 갊다 (15th–16th centuries) meant “hide,” “prepare a body for burial,” or “store”; its hiding sense faded from the mid-to-late 17th century. Storage survives in 갈무리하다 (“put away”); from the late 17th century, burial broadened into task handling through related 갈망하다 (“manage a matter”).