いつ
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Etymology 1
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何時 |
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?)
Pronunciation
Pronoun
- when
- いつ日本へ来ましたか。
- Itsu nihon e kimashita ka.
- When did you come to Japan?
- いつ日本へ来ましたか。
Usage notes
- This word is usually written in hiragana.
- 何時 (itsu) is more commonly used to mean when in terms of dates or days, while 何時 (nanji) is more commonly used to mean when in terms of time of day.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
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厳 稜威 |
Alternative forms
- (honorific) みいつ (miitsu)
Pronunciation
Noun
- (literary) majesty, authority
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- 鞘より拔けておのづから 草なぎはらひし御劍の 御威は千代に燃ゆる火の 燒津の原はこゝなれや
- saya yori nukete onozukara kusanagi haraishi mitsurugi no miitsu hachiyo ni moyuru hi no yaizunohara wa koko nare ya
- (please add an English translation of this example)
- 鞘より拔けておのづから 草なぎはらひし御劍の 御威は千代に燃ゆる火の 燒津の原はこゝなれや
- 1941, “海の進軍”, 海老沼正男 (lyrics):
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Etymology 3
For pronunciation and definitions of いつ – see the following entries. | ||
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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.) |
References
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ , text here
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
- ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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