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