-ia

Definitions

suffix Used in forming plurals of nouns in -ium and -ion.
suffix Used in forming names of countries, diseases, flowers, and rarely collections of things (such as militaria, deletia).

From the endings of corresponding Latin and Ancient Greek plural nouns.

From Latin -ia and Ancient Greek -ία, -εια (-ia), which form abstract nouns of feminine gender.

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The ending -ia would indicate Ya, short for YHWH or Yaweh, the other biblical name for God, generally translated "Lord."

Roger Isaacs: Passover In Egypt: Did The Exodus Really Happen? Roger Isaacs 2011
The ending -ia would indicate Ya, short for YHWH or Yaweh, the other biblical name for God, generally translated "Lord."

Roger Isaacs: Passover In Egypt: Did The Exodus Really Happen? Roger Isaacs 2011
The name tags had been specially prepared: a blank space for your name on the first line, the printed words A Person With on the second, and on the bottom line you were supposed to print the name of your phobia, using the -ia suffix, not the -ic.

Fear Itself Jonathan Nasaw 2003