いは

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, [she] keeps talking and talking. When [she] 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.

References

Kurano, Kenji (1936), Shoku Nihongi Senmyō (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
Satake, Akihiro with Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (1999), Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 1: Man'yōshū (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of いは – see the following entries.

【伊波いなみ】

[proper noun] a surname

(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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Etymology 3

For pronunciation and definitions of いは – see the following entry.

【岩いわ】2

[noun] rock

Alternative spellings
巌, 磐

(This term, いは (ifa), is a historical kana spelling of the above term.)
For a list of all kanji read as いは, see Category:Japanese kanji read as いは.