Andis

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Andis and its variants Andio, Andes, etc., was a personal name popular among the Illyrians of Dardania, Pannonia, and Dalmatia.{{sfn|Wilkes|1996|p=85}}{{sfn|Mócsy|2014|p=254}} The god Andinus – considered to have been the Dardanian indigenous deity of vegetation and soil fertility – is also attested in votive inscriptions from the Roman province of Moesia Superior.{{sfn|Zeqo|2016|p=14}} The personal names are considered to be derived from the name of the Dardanian god.{{sfn|Mócsy|2014|p=254}}

Due to a widespread distribution of personal names like Andio, Andis, etc., and female versions Andia, Andena, etc., as well as the theonym Andinus, which are found throughout the territory inhabited by Illyrians, a presumable root word would be *and-. The name may also be connected to the root of the tribal name Andizetes, a small Illyrian community of Pannonia.

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  • {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LP9RAwAAQBAJ|title=Pannonia and Upper Moesia: A History of the Middle Danube Provinces of the Roman Empire|last=Mócsy|first=András|year=2014|orig-year=1974|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317754251|language=en}}
  • {{Cite book|last=Wilkes|first=John J.|title=The Illyrians|year=1996|orig-year=1992|location=Oxford, United Kingdom|publisher=Blackwell Publishers Limited|isbn=0-631-19807-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Nv6SPRKqs8C}}
  • {{cite journal|last=Zeqo|first=Moikom|title=Zef Mirdita, dijetari i madh shqiptar i formatit evropian|journal=Studime Albanologjike|volume=13|year=2016|issn=1857-6958|publisher=Instituti i Trashëgimisë Shpirtërore e Kulturore të Shqiptarëve – Shkup|pages=13–20}}

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