Where does “それだから” come from?
それだから (Japanese) comes from Japanese だから, from Japanese だ, from Japanese である, from Japanese で, from Japanese ぜ, from Japanese ぞえ, from Japanese え, from Middle Chinese 衣.
それだから (Japanese): from that, thus
Definitions
- from that, thus
Ancestry of “それだから”, step by step
それだから traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Japanese だから
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japanese | だから | Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic... |
| 2 | Japanese | だ | Following parts of speech that do not inflect by... |
| 3 | Japanese | である | To be: the copula, with the same function as だ and its polite form です |
| 4 | Japanese | で | at; with, by, using; indicating the following... |
| 5 | Japanese | ぜ | sentence-ending particle signifying emphasis,... |
| 6 | Japanese | ぞえ | sentence-ending particle signifying emphasis, used to lightly press one's point, with affectionate overtones |
| 7 | Japanese | え | Alternative form of い |
| 8 | Middle Chinese | 衣 | — |