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The purpose of this paper is to show the diachronic change of ‘-습-’ in the ending ‘-습니다’. The diachronic change shows that, in the 15th, ‘-앗-’ resulted from the fusion of ‘-아 잇-’ changed functionally as a pre-ending, which caused the change of ‘-습-’. According to the process of the change, first, ‘-앗-’ became the pre-ending. This change influenced on the syntactic function of ‘-습-’. It means that the functional meaning of ‘-습-’ changed as an honorific ending to the listener. In the 17th century some of the fusion sequences was not orderly. It seems that the syntactic structure of ‘-시-’ had been recovered. And the fusion of ‘-아-+-잇-’ showed in the corpus of the 18th century seems to be occurred by the same cause. The new functional meaning of ‘-습-’ was overlapped with the function of ‘-이-’ and it lost ‘-이-’, which triggered the ending to have an honorific function for the listener. This change seems to influence on the fusion of ‘-습-’ with the ending. In the corpus of 18th century, the order of ‘-습-+-앗-’ appeared in the conjunct clause and an included sentence. It is resulted from the reason that the persistence and connected place of ‘-습-’ could not represent an honorific function to the listener