Lyza
at 2024-03-09 14:06:31 UTC
It's old grammar => this phrase is common (like an idiom) so it got stuck the way it is while the rest of language evolved.
Leebo
at 2024-03-09 17:34:29 UTC
There's an entry for that grammar
bjkrz
at 2024-03-21 16:28:10 UTC
It's a grammatical form that isn't usually taught at earlier levels of Japanese, but it's not obsolete or limited to idioms.
https://www.kanshudo.com/grammar/%E3%81%9A%E3%81%AB
行く→行かない replace ない with ず. 行かず (one way of thinking about the structure) (に is just the ordinary particle, the verb form ends at ず).
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行かずに
created by a grammar point or is it literally just a "custom" word?