たちまち

Japanese edit

Etymology edit

Alternative spellings
忽ち乍ち (uncommon) 儵ち (rare)

From Old Japanese. First cited to the Man'yōshū of 759.^[1]

Apparently a shift from 立ち待ち (tachimachi, “standing and waiting”), the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of compound verb 立ち待つ (tachimatsu, “to wait while standing”),^[1]^[2]^[3] probably from the idea of being at the ready. In older texts, this was always followed by the adverbial particle に (ni) for all senses.^[1]

Pronunciation edit

(Tokyo) たちまち [tàchímáchí] (Heiban – [0])^[3]^[4]^[5]
IPA^(key): [ta̠t͡ɕima̠t͡ɕi]

Adverb edit

たちまち • (tachimachi)

[from 759] at once, in no time at all, in a moment, in a twinkling, immediately, suddenly, all at once, right away
- 2016, 24:31 from the start, in Sanada Maru, episode 2:
  
  痛(いた)むところに貼(は)っておくだけで、たちまち治(なお)ります
  itamu tokoro ni hatteoku dake de, tachimachi naorimasu
  If you simply put it (the patch) on places where it hurts, it will heal instantly.
[from 850] unexpectedly, suddenly, abruptly
[from 1120] (often followed by adverbial particle に (ni)) actually, really, truly, genuinely

References edit

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 “忽・乍・儵”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎^[1] (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
^ “忽ち”, in デジタル大辞泉‎^[2] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: 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), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN