Where does “कदा” come from?

कदा (Sanskrit) comes from Japanese か, from Japanese いつか — sometime, at some point.

कदा (Sanskrit): when, at what time?; someday, one day; how?

Definitions

  1. when, at what time?; someday, one day; how?

Ancestry of “कदा”, step by step

कदा traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese か

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japaneseかfinal interrogative particle, similar to a...
2Japaneseいつかsometime, at some point

via Proto-Indo-Aryan kadáH

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-AryankadáH—
2Proto-Indo-IraniankadáH—

Words derived from “कदा”

Every word from Japanese いつか →Every word from Japanese か →