aindia

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish aindía m (“idol(?); inferior god(?), un-god, non-god”). By surface analysis, an- (“bad, unnatural”) +‎ dia (“god”).

Noun

aindia m (genitive singular aindé, nominative plural aindéithe)

1. (religion) false god

Declension

Declension of aindia (irregular)

bare forms case singular plural nominative aindia aindéithe vocative a aindia a aindéithe genitive aindé aindéithe dative aindia aindéithe aindéithibh (archaic, dialectal) forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-aindia na haindéithe genitive an aindé na n-aindéithe dative leis an aindia don aindia leis na haindéithe leis na haindéithibh (archaic, dialectal)

Related terms

• Ainchríost m (“Antichrist”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of aindia

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aindia	n-aindia	haindia	t-aindia

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aindia”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aindía”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language