1
barbarous exclam. of sorrow, S. Fr. 631.
2
of triumph, Ar. Lys. 1292; ἰαὶ ἰαί Id. Ec. 1180.
The corpus record
ἰαί
iai
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.