Aimend

Aimend

In Irish mythology, Aimend was the daughter of a king of the Corcu Loígde. Details of the story imply she was originally a sun goddess.

Etymology

This name appears to be derived from Proto-Celtic *"aidu-mandā". The name literally means "burning stain," which may have been a byword for the notion of ‘sunburn’ (q.v. [http://www.wales.ac.uk/documents/external/cawcs/PCl-MoE.pdf] [http://www.wales.ac.uk/documents/external/cawcs/MoE-PCl.pdf] [http://www.indo-european.nl/cgi-bin/query.cgi?root=leiden&basename=%5Cdata%5Cie%5Cceltic] ). The Romano-British form of this Proto-Celtic name is likely to have been *"Aedumanda" (q.v. [http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/dwew2/diachrony.pdf] [http://journals.cambridge.org/article_S0022226702001706] [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=74849&query=available%20name&ct=] [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=74843&query=ogham&ct=] ).


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