길다
gil-da
Long sleeves, a long queue, a long meeting: one Korean word
The picture From one end to the other is far, so you keep going and the end still does not appear. gilda is an end that stays far off; jjalda is two ends close together, over at once.
Where the picture shows up in 길다
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The cloth runs past the fingers
소매가 길어서 접어 입었어요.
so-mae-ga gi-reo-seo jeo-beo i-beo-sseo-yo
The sleeves were long, so I rolled them up.
The fingertips vanish into the sleeve and the cloth covers the back of the hand until it is folded once
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The queue's tail goes out the door
오늘은 줄이 너무 길어요.
o-neu-reun ju-ri neo-mu gi-reo-yo
The line is really long today.
The end of the queue passes the shop door and runs down the street out of sight
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The hand goes round twice
회의가 생각보다 길었어요.
hoe-ui-ga saeng-gak-bo-da gi-reo-sseo-yo
The meeting ran longer than expected.
The clock hand goes round twice while the same person stays in the same chair
For stretches of time Korean uses gilda itself.
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The sentence runs off the page
이야기가 길어지니까 나중에 해요.
i-ya-gi-ga gi-reo-ji-ni-kka na-jung-e hae-yo
This will take a while, let's talk later.
One sentence never closes and carries past the edge of the page onto the next
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You look at the far horizon
이 일은 길게 보고 해야 해요.
i i-reun gil-ge bo-go hae-ya hae-yo
This job has to be approached with the long view.
The eyes pass over the near edge underfoot and fix on the far horizon before a step is taken
All of it in one picture
gilda is the picture of an end sitting far away. Cloth running past the fingertips and the sleeves are long; the queue's tail out the door and the line is long; two full turns of the clock hand in the same chair and the meeting was long. One sentence running off the page is a story getting long, and looking at the far horizon instead of the near end is taking the long view.