ki no kage ya: a student's blog of Japanese language and calligraphy
Monday, November 28, 2022
とにかく (tonikaku, "anyway").
Wondering about the etymology of this. Wiktionary says it derives from とにかくに, which it seems we can read as とに、かくに to ni, kaku ni, roughly "that way or this" / "one way or another". Reminiscent of Eng "but that's neither here nor there". Anyway...
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