今朝 - Wiktionary

今朝 From Old Japanese. Originally a compound of 此 (ke, “this”) +‎ 朝 (asa, “morning”). The initial /ke/ is an alternative form of the initial /ko/ (此, “this”) seen in words such as ここ (koko, “this place → here”) or これ (kore, “this [nominal] → this”), and the final /sa/ is a cont