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Ko etymology discussion
   

Ko seemingly is a buddhist term (from sanskrit kalpa) describing "an enormous passage of time, the next thing to eternity." (Source: Kawabata's Master of Go, ISBN 0-679-76106-3, footnote 39)

The original Chinese word ko means to rob. (Source: [ext] Go History at yutopian.com)

However, the Japanese term ko literally means "threat" (which means a ko threat would be redundant :) )

What? I thought it meant "eternity", i.e. the same as in the sanskrit and so forth.

exswoo That's the secondary meaning of the same kanji. A ko situation would involve both of those things, but I personally prefer to concentrate the threat def. more so than the eternity(well, more like a "a very long time" than eternity) def., but I guess you can go with what you like. :)


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