I was looking into a presumably older song, Gion Kouta, and I noticed that one
of the lyrics is 「恋しや」. I'm assuming this comes from the adjective 「恋しい」, but
I don't know why 「や」 is used instead of 「い」. Does 「や」 make 「い」 adjectives into
nouns? Is it an older adjective ending? I'm confused about this.
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i-adjectives particle-や
What's going on with adjectives ending with や?
恋し is the classical Japanese form of 恋しい. It is already in its terminal form
(終止形) so や is just an exclamation word here.

You can check the conjugation table
[here](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%88%80%E3%81%97#Japanese).
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