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”).

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

 

• IPA^(key): /ma.ni.á.kɛːs/ → /ma.niˈa.cis/ → /ma.niˈa.cis/

• (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 • (maniákēs) m (genitive μᾰνῐᾰ́κου); first declension

1. 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 maniákēs	τὼ μᾰνῐᾰ́κᾱ tṑ maniákā	οἱ μᾰνῐᾰ́και hoi maniákai
Genitive	τοῦ μᾰνῐᾰ́κου toû maniákou	τοῖν μᾰνῐᾰ́καιν toîn maniákain	τῶν μᾰνῐᾰκῶν tôn maniakôn
Dative	τῷ μᾰνῐᾰ́κῃ tôi maniákēi	τοῖν μᾰνῐᾰ́καιν toîn maniákain	τοῖς μᾰνῐᾰ́καις toîs maniákais
Accusative	τὸν μᾰνῐᾰ́κην tòn maniákēn	τὼ μᾰνῐᾰ́κᾱ tṑ maniákā	τοὺς μᾰνῐᾰ́κᾱς toùs maniákās
Vocative	μᾰνῐᾰ́κη maniákē	μᾰνῐᾰ́κᾱ maniákā	μᾰνῐᾰ́και maniákai
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)

Further reading

• “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