How does this ように work?

Question

>今年も良い年でありますように！ I hope you have another good year! What is going on exactly where the ように means hope? Does the よう derive from a verb? I would also like to know how to describe this word in the relevant grammatical terms, both in english and japanese. From what I understand from the answers it is a noun that turns into an adverb?

Answer 1

There is a hidden word,'' お祈りします、願っています'' after ''ように’’

So, we can say, ''ように　お祈りします（願っています）''

ように（様：よう、さま＝様子ようす= the condition of a thing)

For example, 早く元気になりますように！ is 早く元気になるように願っています。

I hope you will get well soon

Answer 2

First off, within set expressions (such as the above), the form of "....ように" is similar to the English form of "I hope that..." in function.

Literally, however, the "I hope" part doesn't exist in the above Japanese expression. I suppose some would argue that the "I hope" part is implied, but that would only be because they are thinking of how they would say the same thing in English.

Forget about English. This is Japanese. The trick to learning another language is to stop trying to figure out what it means in your native language, and to simply try to use it like the native speakers do, who did so, mind you, with no help of your language. (You certainly didn't need another language to learn English did you? No.)

Would you argue, for example that お早うございます is "good morning?" Only if you are coming from English. "Oh, I see that the Japanese have a greeting that they say to each other in the morning, therefore it must be what I say to others in the morning, therefore it must be, 'good morning.'" Then, how would you explain how you got "good" and "morning" from お早うございます? Do you see my point about how you make things overly difficult when you try to convert into English and then try to understand it?

Anyhow, the meaning of "ように" in the above is actually closer to "so that."

This ように is, by the way, in kanji is 様に, and is a indicated in Japanese dictionaries as the 連用形 (conjunctive form) of the 助動詞 (helping verb) of 様. For example, see https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/jn/226706/meaning/m0u/