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I asked this question because I saw a pun in the song デンパラダイム where the
producer tuned a lyric stating マッハ木っ端ミジンコ土っ管! I initially translated it as 'in
the earthen pipes the negligibly tiny water fleas go at a fast speed" but
there's also a word called 木っ端微塵 which is basically in smithereens justifying
木っ端's use as a prefix. even though ミジンコ is in katakana, knowing that 木っ端微塵 as
a word existed I searched for a suffix called ko on Jisho.org to find out
whether 木っ端微塵こ could be a clause and if 木っ端ミジンコ was a pun and found that it,
こ, meant "being in a state" and, according to the site, was a suffix and
abbreviation. I searched it up in Japanese typing ことは and こ 意味 and didn't find
any definition matching the one on Jisho's, only finding definitions for words
read こ. Does the word こ exist and what word or term does it come from?
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Where does the abbreviation こ, apparently meaning to be in a state, come from?
Basically [木っ端](https://jisho.org/word/%E6%9C%A8%E3%81%A3%E7%AB%AF) and
[ミジンコ](https://jisho.org/word/%E5%BE%AE%E5%A1%B5%E5%AD%90) are words on their
own here. If you listen to the music video, you can recognize they are clearly
sung as two separate words. So it makes no sense to discuss the meaning of コ
in isolation.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DGoqBm.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DGoqBm.png)

Although 木っ端微塵 may be vaguely implied as something like a
[_kakekotoba_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakekotoba), thinking about the
meaning of コ is as meaningless as thinking about the meaning of ラダイム in
デンパラダイム (which of course is a
[portmanteau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau) of 電波 and パラダイム).
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