いつ
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From Old Japanese,[1] from Proto-Japonic *Etu. Appears in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE.[2]
The presence of other Old Japanese indefinites beginning with い (i) suggests a possible shared root of い (i, possibly “what” or “which”), as in 如何 (ikaga, “how”), 何処 (izuko, “where”), 幾ら (ikura, “how many, how much”).
Likely cognate with eastern Old Japanese word idu (modern idzu or izu, “where”), still used in modern Japanese as part of the word いずれ (izure, “which”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
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(This term, いつ (itsu), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.) For a list of all kanji read as いつ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as いつ.) |
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