an affirmative responsive particle: `cia bad dóig diar tiachtain.' `Inge ém meni thised in gilla bec ...' `Ia omm ale,' bar Ailill `Ja aber gewiss!', TBC-LL¹ 843. As an interjection: `Ia ón ómm!' ar in chaillech " `Oh! indeed!' said the woman," Ériu i 134.7 . ? To this, used in asseveration: ia .i. cenēlae forgill indsin, ar iss ed indara hainm déc ō ndingarar Crīst la Ebraide, Corm. Y 750.