ἴα
ὁ χρόνος ἐστὶ δάνος, τὸ ζῆν πικρός ἐσθ' ὁ δανίσας → time is a loan, and he who lent you life is a hard creditor | time is on loan and life's lender is a prick
English (LSJ)
ἰῆς, ἰῇ, ἴᾰν, Ep. fem.,=
A one, v. εἷς.
ἴα [ῐ], τά, pl. of ἴον,
A violet, h.Cer.6.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1231] ἰῆς, ἰῇ, ἴαν, altes ion. fem. zu εἷς statt μία, eine, Il. 4, 437. 13, 354 Od. 14, 435. Vgl. ἴος.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἴα: ἰῆς, ἰῇ, ἴαν, ἀρχ. Ἰων. θηλ. τοῦ εἷς, ἀντὶ μία, μιῆς κλ.
French (Bailly abrégé)
1gén. ἰῆς, dat. ἰῇ, acc. ἴαν;
fém. épq. lesb. et thess. de εἷς, un.
2pl. de ἴον;
plur. irrég. de ἴος¹.
English (Autenrieth)
see ἴος.
Greek Monotonic
ἴα: ἰῆς, ἰῇ, ἴᾰν, αρχ. Ιων. θηλ. του εἷς, αντί μία, μιῆς, κ.λπ.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
ἴα: II арх. - ион. [f к ἴος (= атт. μία; gen. ἰῆς, dat. ἰῇ, acc. ἴαν) одна: ἴα γῆρυς Hom. один голос; τὴν ἴαν (sc. μοῖραν) Hom. одну часть.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
ἴα:
I (ῐ) τά pl. к ἴον.
Frisk Etymological English
Grammatical information: f.,
Meaning: one and the same, also (the) one as opposed to the other (Il.); the one (Gortyn).
Other forms: acc. ἴαν (Il., ξ 435). Incidental forms, partly doubtful, in Lesb., Thessal., Boeot. [Corinn.] and in Hp. Morb. 4, 37), gen. ἰῆς, dat. ἰῃ̃ (Il.); further dat. n. ἰῳ̃ (Ζ 422), acc. m. ἰόν (IG 5 [1] 1390, 126, Messen. Ia, after Ζ 422; not quite certain), dat. m. ἰῳ̃ (Gortyn)
Origin: IE [Indo-European] [282] *i- pron. he, she
Etymology: Old pronoun (numeral?) without agreement outside Greek, origin. only fem., in inflexion adapted to μία. Prob. inflected form of *i-. Several proposals (e. g. to Lat. is) in Schwyzer 588. (Not to the pron. ἰός, Ruigh Lingua 28 (1971) 172: Homère a fabriqué la forme artificielle ἰῳ̃, only Z 422.)
