こなた

See also: こなだ

Japanese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Alternative spelling
此方

From (ko, this) + (na, Old Japanese possessive particle) + (ta, direction, side).

Pronoun

こなた (konata) 

  1. (archaic) this way, here
  2. (archaic) the person in question, he, she, him, her
  3. (archaic) since (a time in the past), prior to (a time in the future)
  4. (archaic) first-person pronoun: I, me, we, us
  5. (archaic) second-person pronoun: you
Derived terms
See also

Etymology 2

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Proper noun

こなた (Konata) 

  1. 小向: a surname

References

  1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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