The heart of andalbokdal lies in the first word, andal. Here "an" points to the inside of the body that holds all the organs — that is, the inside of the heart — and "dal" comes from dalda. This dalda is not the sweetness of taste but the sense of the heart heating up and burning with anxiety, the way a piece of iron grows hot in a fire. So andal paints the state of one's insides burning with worry and impatience — "the insides heat up." It was originally the phrase "an-i dalda" ("the inside heats up"), which hardened into a single word as the particle dropped away. The bokdal that follows has no independent meaning; it is a reduplicative element added for rhyme. Even so, bokdal naturally carries an overtone of frantic stewing, and so andalbokdal settled into meaning "to burn inside and fret with impatience." It is a word born from bodily sensation, putting the churning of one's insides straight into sound.