安んぞ

Contraction of 何処(いづく) (izuku) + に (ni) + ぞ (zo).

• (Tokyo) いずくんぞ (Nakadaka – )^[1]
• IPA^(key):

安(いずく)んぞ • (izukunzo) ^{←いづくんぞ (idukunzo)?}

1. (with modern volitional form, む/ん, or むや/んや) how, why

   燕(えん)雀(じゃく)安(いずく)んぞ鴻鵠(こうこく)の志(こころざし)を知(し)らんや。

   Enjaku izukunzo kōkoku no kokorozashi o shiran ya.

   How can a little songbird understand the ambitions of a grand swan?

   • 1892 March, 森鴎外, 柵草紙の山房論文:

     わが頑(ぐわん)冥(めい)なる、曷(いづく)むぞ敢(あへ)てレツシングを以(もつ)てみづから比(ひ)せむや。

     Wa ga ganmei naru, izukunzo aete Resshingu wo motte mizukara hisen ya.

     I am stubborn, how would I dare to compare myself to Lessing?

   • 1911 May, 柴田流星, 残されたる江戸:

     いうを休(やす)めよ、三(さん)月(がつ)の下(くだ)り凧(たこ)は江戸(えど)ッ児(こ)の末(まつ)路(ろ)を示(しめ)すものだと、江戸(えど)ッ児本(こほん)来(らい)の面(めん)目(もく)は執(しゅう)着(ちゃく)を離(はな)れて常(つね)に凝(ぎょう)滞(たい)せざるを誇(ほこ)りとするもの、焉(いずく)んぞ死(し)と滅(めつ)亡(ぼう)とに兢(きょう)々(きょう)たるものであろうぞ。

     Iu o yasumeyo, sangatsu no kudari tako wa edokko no matsuro o shimesu mono da to, edokko honrai no menmoku wa shūchaku o hanarete tsune ni gyōtaisezaru o hokori to suru mono, izukunzo shi to metsubō to ni kyōkyō taru mono de arō zo.

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This term pairs with a verb in its volitional form. This is almost always the classical volitional auxiliary verb む (mu) or ん (n), with the classical rhetorical question particle や (ya) also commonly appended. However, use of this term with modern volitional forms is attested.