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) 

  1. 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
      (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  2. 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
      (please add an English translation of this usage example)

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References

Proper noun

いは • (Iha) 

  1. 伊波, 伊覇: a surname
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