I've read that several bits of Japanese come from contractions with ある
:
だ
comes fromで + ある
(source)なる
comes fromに + ある
(source)たり
comes fromて + あり
(source)たり
comes fromと + あり
(source)- Adjective forms like
たのしかった
come from inflectingたのしく + ある
(source)
Because contraction with ある
seems to have occurred quite a few times, I started wondering if the suffix 〜がる
(as in たがる
or ほしがる
) was a contraction of が + ある
. I realize this is baseless speculation, but it sounded plausible to me, so I tried to look it up to see if it was right. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything about the etymology of がる
online, and my dictionaries don't say anything on the subject either.
Is this possible? Is there a better explanation?