The corpus record

Ἰάονες

iaones · οἱ

Ionians, from Ionia, Greek

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Where it lives

Persians 2 · 3.93/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k
History 1 · 0.07/10k

What it meant — LSJ

Ionians, from Ionia, Greek, Athenian

= Ἴωνες, Ionians, Il. 13.685, h.Ap. 147, etc.; in the mouth of a Persian = Ἕλληνες, A. Pers. 178, 563 (lyr.): sg., Ἰάων rare, Theoc. 16.57:—fem. Ἰαονίς, ίδος, Νύμφαισιν Ἰαονίδεσσιν Nic. Fr. 74.8: Ἰαονίηθε, from Ionia, ib. 2: Ἰαόνιος, α, ον, Greek, A. Supp. 69 (lyr.), Pers. 899 (lyr., Herm. for Ἰόνιον); Athenian, Orac. ap. Plu. Sol. 10.

In the wild

Ἰαόνων · Iaonōn Aeschylus, Persians 558–563
Ἰαόνων · Iaonōn Aeschylus, Persians 176–178
Ἰάονες · Iaones Iliad 13.685
Ἰάονες · Iaones Thucydides, History 3.104.4 (DIORISIS sentence 2439)

Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Ἰάονες (scan p. 620; entry #2660).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Ἰάονες (scan p. 467; entry #3292).
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Ἰάονες (scan p. 737; entry #2540).

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