μανιάκης

• μανιάκη (maniákē)

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.

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

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

• μανιάκιον (maniákion)

• → 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