Where does “ならば” come from?

ならば (Japanese) comes from Japanese ば, from Japanese は, from Old Japanese は.

ならば (Japanese): if

Definitions

  1. if

Ancestry of “ならば”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1JapaneseばIn Modern Japanese, attaches to the kateikei, and...
2Japaneseはwhat about, where is; Inserted between two verbs...
3Old Japaneseは—

Words derived from “ならば”

Every word from Old Japanese は →Every word from Japanese は →Every word from Japanese ば →