Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish aindía m (“idol, non-god”). By surface analysis, an- (“bad, unnatural”) + dia (“god”).
Noun
aindia m (genitive singular aindé, nominative plural aindéithe)
- (religion) false god
Declension
Declension of aindia (irregular)
| bare forms
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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aindia
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aindéithe
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| vocative
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a aindia
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a aindéithe
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| genitive
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aindé
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aindéithe
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| dative
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aindia
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aindéithe
aindéithibh (archaic, dialectal)
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| forms with the definite article
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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an t-aindia
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na haindéithe
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| genitive
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an aindé
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na n-aindéithe
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| dative
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leis an aindia
don aindia
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leis na haindéithe
leis na haindéithibh (archaic, dialectal)
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Mutation
Mutated forms of aindia
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eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| aindia
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n-aindia
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haindia
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t-aindia
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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