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

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aindia	n-aindia	haindia	t-aindia
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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