Ἰνδία

See also: Ινδία

Ancient Greek

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš

Sanskrit सिन्धु॑ (síndhu)bor.

Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 (hiⁿdūš)bor.

Ancient Greek Ἰνδός (Indós)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)

Ancient Greek Ἰνδία

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

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

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

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.

“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