いは
Japanese
Etymology
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 (rōmaji 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
- c. 759, Man'yōshū (book 3, poem 237)
- 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
- 797: Shoku Nihongi (edict #45)
References
- Kurano, Kenji (1936) Shoku Nihongi Senmyō (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
- Satake, Akihiro; Hideo Yamada, Rikio Kudō, Masao Ōtani, Yoshiyuki Yamazaki (1999) Shin Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 1: Man'yōshū (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
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