Where does “ては” come from?
ては (Japanese) comes from Japanese と言えば, from Japanese と, from Old Japanese と, from Proto-Japonic tə, from Proto-Uralic tä — that.
ては (Japanese): "undesirable assumption": if; "indicates a reason...
Definitions
- "undesirable assumption": if; "indicates a reason...
Ancestry of “ては”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Japanese | と言えば | — |
| 2 | Japanese | と | with; and; a particle following a phrase or... |
| 3 | Old Japanese | と | — |
| 4 | Proto-Japonic | tə | place |
| 5 | Proto-Uralic | tä | that |