Andis and its variants Andio, Andes, etc., was a personal name popular among the IllyriansofDardania, Pannonia, and Dalmatia.[1][2] 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 porvince of Moesia Superior.[3] The personal names are considered to be derived from the name of the Dardanian god.[2]
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.
