köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Late Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *h₃erbʰ-der. Late Latin orbita Late Latin exorbitō Proto-Indo-European *-onts Latin -ns Late Latin -āns Late Latin exorbitānslbor. Spanish exorbitante Learned borrowing from Late Latin exorbitāns. Equivalent to ex- + órbita + -ante.
unbelievable, unreasonable, extraordinary, completely unexpected, outrageous, preposterous · not at all
köken: Many sources consider this to be a shift from 途でもない (to de mo nai, literally “that is not even the way”, idiomatically “extraordinary, unexpected, unreasonable”) or とでもない (to de mo nai, literally “that's not even [whatever came before]”, where the to here is the quotative particle to in reference to whatever was just said previously). However, citations for tondemonai precede those for todemonai…