In Irish mythology and genealogy, Aimend is the daughter of ÃÂengus Bolg, king of the Dáirine or Corcu LoÃÂgde. She marries Conall Corc, founder of the Eóganachta dynasties, and through him is an ancestor of the "inner circle" septs of Eóganacht Chaisil, Eóganacht Glendamnach, and Eóganacht ÃÂine, who established the powerful kingship of Cashel. Details of the story imply she may have originally been a goddess (Byrne 2001: 166, 193).
This name appears to be derived from Proto-Celtic *aidu-mandÃÂ. The name literally means "burning stain," which may have been a byword for the notion of âÂÂsunburnâ (q.v. http://www.wales.ac.uk/documents/external/cawcs/PCl-MoE.pdf http://www.wales.ac.uk/documents/external/cawcs/MoE-PCl.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20060211181501/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=).