Where does “左様ならば” come from?
左様ならば (Japanese) comes from Japanese ならば, from Japanese ば, from Japanese は, from Old Japanese は.
Ancestry of “左様ならば”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Japanese | ならば | if |
| 2 | Japanese | ば | In Modern Japanese, attaches to the kateikei, and... |
| 3 | Japanese | は | what about, where is; Inserted between two verbs... |
| 4 | Old Japanese | は | — |