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Japanese
Etymology 1
ipa → iɸa → iwa. Compound of い (i, “emphatic marker”) and は (wa, “focus marker”). As -i was archaic even in Old Japanese, -wa was attached to supplement it.
Particle
いは • (iwa)
- emphatic nominative case marker
c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 3, poem 237:不敢雖謂 話礼ゝゝ常 詔許曽 志斐伊波奏 強話登言- INA TO2 IPE2DO2 KATAre KATAre to2 NO2RASE ko2so2 sipi2 i pa MAWOSE SIPI2KATARI TO2 NO2RU
- Even though I said no, keeps talking and talking. When talks about sipï, I talk about compelling.
- pronominal; person or thing; one
- 797: Shoku Nihongi (edict 45)
此乎持伊波稱乎致之、捨伊波謗乎招都- KO2 wo TAMOTU ipa TATAPE2 wo ITAsi SUTURU ipa SOSIRI wo MANEKI1tu
- To hold this is to praise it; to throw it away is to have had a bad mouth.
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Etymology 2
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(This term, いは (iha), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
For a list of all kanji read as いは, see Category:Japanese kanji read as いは.)
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(The following entry is uncreated: 伊覇.)