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Etymology
Uncertain. A late Vedic corruption of an earlier *āndrá, from Proto-Indo-Aryan *āndrám, compare Kalasha ónḍrak (“egg”).
Perhaps ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *en-dʰró-m, from *én (“in”), compare Proto-Slavic *ędro (“kernel”). Or perhaps related to Proto-Iranian *Hāwyám (“egg”) and reshaped under the influence of words like पिण्ड (pínda-, “lump”), मण्डल (máṇḍala-, “circle”), which also denote round things. Or borrowed from Proto-Munda , compare Sora (adre, “egg”), Kharia (eṇḍá, “egg”).
Pronunciation
Noun
आण्ड • (āṇḍá) stem, m
- an egg
c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE,
Ṛgveda 10.68.7:
- बृहस्पतिरमत हि त्यदासां नाम स्वरीणां सदने गुहा यत् ।
आण्डेव भित्त्वा शकुनस्य गर्भमुदुस्रियाः पर्वतस्य त्मनाजत् ॥- bṛhaspatiramata hi tyadāsāṃ nāma svarīṇāṃ sadane guhā yat .
āṇḍeva bhittvā śakunasya garbhamudusriyāḥ parvatasya tmanājat . - That secret name borne by the lowing cattle within the cave Bṛhaspati discovered,
And drove, himself, the bright kine from the mountain, like a bird's young after the egg's breaking.
- (in the dual) the testicles
c. 1200 BCE – 1000 BCE,
Atharvaveda 9.7.13:
- क्रोधो वृक्कौ मन्युर् आण्डौ प्रजा शेपः ॥
- krodho vṛkkau manyur āṇḍau prajā śepaḥ .
- Wrath the kidneys, anger the testes, offspring the generative organ .
Declension
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Descendants
- ⇒ Sanskrit: अण्ड (aṇḍá) (later form) (see there for further descendants)
References
- ^ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) “āṇḍá-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 162
Further reading
- Monier Williams (1899) “आण्ड”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 134.
- Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992) “āṇḍá”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan] (in German), volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 162