आण्ड

Uncertain. A late Vedic corruption of an earlier *आ॒न्द्र (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 a substrate term, perhaps the origin for पिण्ड (piṇḍa, “lump”) and मण्डल (maṇḍala, “circle”), which also denote round things.

Per Kuiper, borrowed from Proto-Munda , compare Sora (adre, “egg”), Kharia (eṇḍá, “egg”);^[1] however, it is more likely that the Munda terms are Indo-Aryan loans.

• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /ɑːɳ.ɖɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːɳ.ɖɐ/

आ॒ण्ड • (āṇḍá) stem, m

1. 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.

2. (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 .

• साण्ड (sā́ṇḍa)

• ⇒ Sanskrit: अण्ड (aṇḍá) (later form) (see there for further descendants)

• Monier Williams (1899) “आण्ड”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 134.