いつ

Etymology 1
From, from. Appears in the , completed some time after 759 CE.

The presence of other 🇨🇬 indefinites beginning with い (i) suggests a possible shared root of い (i, possibly “what” or “which”), as in, ,.

Likely cognate with eastern 🇨🇬 word idu (modern idzu or izu, “where”), still used in modern Japanese as part of the word.

Pronoun

 * 1) when

Usage notes

 * This word is usually written in hiragana.
 * is more commonly used to mean in terms of dates or days, while  is more commonly used to mean  in terms of time of day.

Noun

 * 1)  majesty, authority