आण्ड

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 [Term?], compare Sora [script needed] (adre, “egg”), Kharia [script needed] (eṇḍá, “egg”).[1]

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

आण्ड • (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 [represents] the kidneys, anger the testes, offspring the generative organ [of the Divine Bull].

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• 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.
• 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