Where does “彼は誰時” come from?

彼は誰時 (Japanese) comes from Japanese 時, from Old Japanese 時, from Old Japanese しだ — a time, circumstance, occasion.

彼は誰時 (Japanese): twilight; dawn; dusk

Definitions

  1. twilight; dawn; dusk

Ancestry of “彼は誰時”, step by step

彼は誰時 traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanesetime; an event, case, occasion, moment; a...
2Old Japanesea time, moment (in time), occasion
3Old Japaneseしだa time, circumstance, occasion

via Japanese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese"interrogative personal pronoun": who, whom
2JapaneseIndicates the subject of a sentence; conjunction;...
3Finnish-nkaForms nouns, mainly bird names (in dialects) and some toponyms

via Japanese

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanesedistal demonstrative, something far off removed...
2Old Japanese
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