Ἰνδία

See also: Ινδία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš

Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš

Sanskrit सिन्धु॑ (síndhu)bor.

Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hiⁿdūš)bor.

Ancient Greek Ἰνδός (Indós)

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)

Ancient Greek Ἰνδία (Indía)

From Ἰνδός (Indós, “the Indus river”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hiⁿdūš), from Proto-Iranian *hínduš, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš (“river”), of uncertain origin.

Compare Persian هند (hend), Sanskrit सिन्धु (síndhu, “a river, stream”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /in.dí.aː/ → /inˈdi.a/ → /inˈdi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /in.dí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /inˈdi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /inˈdi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /inˈdi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /inˈdi.a/

Proper noun

Ἰνδῐ́ᾱ • (Indĭ́ā) f (genitive Ἰνδῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. India (a region of South Asia, traditionally delimited by the Himalayas and the Indus river; the Indian subcontinent)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Ἰνδῐ́ᾱ; τῆς Ἰνδῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Ἰνδῐ́ᾱ hē Indĭ́ā
Genitive	τῆς Ἰνδῐ́ᾱς tês Indĭ́ās
Dative	τῇ Ἰνδῐ́ᾳ tēî Indĭ́āi
Accusative	τὴν Ἰνδῐ́ᾱν tḕn Indĭ́ān
Vocative	Ἰνδῐ́ᾱ Indĭ́ā
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Ινδία (Indía)
• Latin: India, indicus

References

• “Ἰνδία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,013