μανιάκης

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

μανιάκη (maniákē)

Etymology

Formation like μανδάκης (mandákēs) and καυνάκης (kaunákēs). Usually considered to be a Gaulish word, with cognates in Latin monīle (“necklace, collar”) and Proto-Germanic *manją (“collar”). Relation with μόναπος (mónapos, “aurochs”) seems improbable. It is now thought that the other Indo-European languages must have acquired the word from the same source as Greek.

Rüdiger Schmitt connects Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬭𐬀𐬥𐬎-𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬥𐬌 (zaranu-maⁱni, “with golden collar”), and Walther Hinz proposes a derivation from Old Persian *manyaka (“necklace”), from a common Indo-Iranian root *mani (“necklace”).^[1]

The variants μάννος (mánnos), μόννος (mónnos) point to a non-Indo-European origin: geminate -νν-, interchange α/ο and presence of a suffix -ιακ-.

Still, the origin remains unclear.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ma.ni.á.kɛːs/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ma.niˈa.ke̝s/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ma.niˈa.cis/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ma.niˈa.cis/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ma.niˈa.cis/

Noun

μᾰνῐᾰ́κης • (mănĭắkēs) m (genitive μᾰνῐᾰ́κου); first declension

necklace, torc, armlet, worn of gold by Persians and Gauls

Inflection

First declension of ὁ μᾰνῐᾰ́κης; τοῦ μᾰνῐᾰ́κου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μᾰνῐᾰ́κης ho mănĭắkēs	τὼ μᾰνῐᾰ́κᾱ tṑ mănĭắkā	οἱ μᾰνῐᾰ́και hoi mănĭắkai
Genitive	τοῦ μᾰνῐᾰ́κου toû mănĭắkou	τοῖν μᾰνῐᾰ́καιν toîn mănĭắkain	τῶν μᾰνῐᾰκῶν tôn mănĭăkôn
Dative	τῷ μᾰνῐᾰ́κῃ tōî mănĭắkēi	τοῖν μᾰνῐᾰ́καιν toîn mănĭắkain	τοῖς μᾰνῐᾰ́καις toîs mănĭắkais
Accusative	τὸν μᾰνῐᾰ́κην tòn mănĭắkēn	τὼ μᾰνῐᾰ́κᾱ tṑ mănĭắkā	τοὺς μᾰνῐᾰ́κᾱς toùs mănĭắkās
Vocative	μᾰνῐᾰ́κη mănĭắkē	μᾰνῐᾰ́κᾱ mănĭắkā	μᾰνῐᾰ́και mănĭắkai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

μανιάκιον (maniákion)

Descendants

→ Old Armenian: մանեակ (maneak)
- → Armenian: մանյակ (manyak) (learned)
- → Old Georgian: მანიაკი (maniaḳi)

“μανιάκης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“μανιάκης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
μανιάκης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

^ Hinz, Walther (1975) “*manyaka-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎^[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 154

[1] Hinz, Walther (1975) “*manyaka-”, in Altiranisches Sprachgut der Nebenüberlieferungen (Göttinger Orientforschungen, Reihe III, Iranica; 3)‎^[1] (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 154

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