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
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 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 ... |
| 3 | Japanese | で | at; with, by, using; indicating the following... |
| 4 | Japanese | ぜ | sentence-ending particle signifying emphasis,... |
| 5 | Japanese | ぞえ | — |
| 6 | Japanese | え | Alternative form of い |
| 7 | Middle Chinese | 衣 | — |