しかし

Japanese

Etymology 1

Alternative spellings
然し
併し

/ɕikari ɕi/ → /ɕikaɕɕi/ → /ɕikaɕi/

Originally 然り (shikari, “being like so”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of classical verb 然り (shikari, “to be like so”)) + し (shi, the 連体形 (rentaikei, “attributive form”) of past recollective auxiliary き (ki)). This abbreviated from shikari shi to shikasshi, and then shortened further to shikashi.

The initial sense may have been parseable as that [preceding statement] being so, ..., much like English phrases such as be that as it may or that said, followed by a statement in opposition to the earlier statement.

Pronunciation

Category:Japanese terms with Nakadaka pitch accent (Tōkyō)#しかしCategory:Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation with pitch accent#しかし

Conjunction

しかし • (shikashiCategory:Japanese links with redundant wikilinks#しかしCategory:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#しかし) Category:Japanese lemmas#しかしCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#しかしCategory:Japanese conjunctions#しかしCategory:Japanese hiragana#しかしCategory:Japanese palindromes#しかしCategory:Japanese entries with incorrect language header#しかしCategory:Pages with entries#しかしCategory:Pages with 1 entry#しかし

  1. (formalCategory:Japanese formal terms#しかし) but, however
Alternative forms

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of しかし – see the following entries.
【私窩子】 Category:Japanese nouns#しかしCategory:Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys#しかしCategory:Japanese lemmas#しかしCategory:Japanese hiragana#しかし
[noun] prostitute
(This term, しかし (shikashi), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)

(The following entry does not have a page created for it yet: 私窠子.)Category:Japanese redlinks/ja-see#しかしCategory:Japanese entries with incorrect language header#しかしCategory:Pages with entries#しかしCategory:Pages with 1 entry#しかし

References

  1. ↑ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林Category:Japanese links with redundant wikilinks#しかしCategory:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#しかし [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 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
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