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Leem, Woohyong. 2015. A Study on the Etymological Existence of Greek Word ‘Cosmos’ -The Proposal that Cosmos is a Derivative Word-. The Journal of Studies in Language 31.3, 707-732. A greek word cosmos(κόσμος, kosmos) is considered that it does not have etymology. I wondered that the cosmos has been written as a primary word do not have parents in dictionaries. A meaningful answer about this question I acquired through James Strong. He has a strong conviction that the cosmos is derived from the verb ‘komeō’. This article purpose is to obtain the justification for the claim that etymology of the ‘cosmos’ exist in accordance with his opinion. During this process I suggested that need to separate the etymology of the ‘cosmos’ into two directions. That this article is to argue that there is the etymology of the cosmos, second, the etymology is probably verb ‘komeō’, third, the process from ‘komeō’ to ‘cosmos’ consists of two kinds of road. If you accept the meaning of the ‘cosmos’ in such a process, you can understand the fact that the ‘cosmos’ has the broad and layered sense. In other words, “Why does have the ‘cosmos’ the ambiguity that it has action meaning and aesthetic meaning at the same time?” This is a question we’ve been always asking. I think that this article can give us a fairly significant help getting an answer. (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)