Ἴων

• Ἰᾱ́ϝων (Iā́wōn)
• Ἰᾱ́ων (Iā́ōn)

From earlier Ἰᾱ́ϝων (Iā́wōn) according to Beekes.

Pokorny has speculated about a connection to a Proto-Indo-European root *wey-, expressing a shout of joy or distress, as in Ancient Greek ἰά (iá, “clamour, shout; sound, roar”). Ἰᾱ́ϝων (Iā́wōn) could mean “devotee of Apollo”, based on the cry ἰή παιών (iḗ paiṓn) uttered in his worship; the god was also called ἰήϊος (iḗïos) himself.[1] Douglas Harper speculates that it may share a Proto-Indo-European origin with Sanskrit योनी (yonī, “womb, vagina”), a supposed reference to goddess-worshipping, although he does not provide a source for this claim.[2]

Compare Mycenaean Greek 𐀂𐀊𐀺𐀚 (i-ja-wo-ne, “Ionians”), Egyptian ywnj-ꜥꜣ (“Great Ionia”), both attested in the first half of 14th century BC.

Ἴων • (Íōn) m (genitive Ἴωνος); third declension

1. Ion, the mythological ancestor of the Ionian people
2. an Ancient Greek male name

Ἴων • (Íōn) m (genitive Ἴωνος); third declension

1. one of the Ionians; a native or inhabitant of Ionia

• Ἰᾰ́ς (Iás)

• Greek: Ίων (Íon)
• → Biblical Hebrew: יָוָן (yāwān)
  • → English: Javan
• → Latin: Iōn
• → Old Persian: 𐎹𐎢𐎴 (Yauna-, “Ionian; Greek”)
• → Turkish: İyon

• “Ἴων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Ἴων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Ἴων in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,014