μάνδαλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Technical word in -αλο- without etymology. The formation can hardly be Indo-European. Unrelated is ἀμάνδαλον (amándalon, “invisible”), in view of the divergent meanings.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /mán.da.los/ → /ˈman.da.los/ → /ˈman.da.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mán.da.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈman.da.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈman.da.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈman.da.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈman.da.los/

Noun

μᾰ́νδᾰλος • (mándalos) m (genitive μᾰνδᾰ́λου); second declension

1. bolt of a door

   Synonym: βᾰ́λᾰνος (bálanos)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ μᾰ́νδᾰλος; τοῦ μᾰνδᾰ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ μᾰ́νδᾰλος ho mándalos	τὼ μᾰνδᾰ́λω tṑ mandálō	οἱ μᾰ́νδᾰλοι hoi mándaloi
Genitive	τοῦ μᾰνδᾰ́λου toû mandálou	τοῖν μᾰνδᾰ́λοιν toîn mandáloin	τῶν μᾰνδᾰ́λων tôn mandálōn
Dative	τῷ μᾰνδᾰ́λῳ tôi mandálōi	τοῖν μᾰνδᾰ́λοιν toîn mandáloin	τοῖς μᾰνδᾰ́λοις toîs mandálois
Accusative	τὸν μᾰ́νδᾰλον tòn mándalon	τὼ μᾰνδᾰ́λω tṑ mandálō	τοὺς μᾰνδᾰ́λους toùs mandálous
Vocative	μᾰ́νδᾰλε mándale	μᾰνδᾰ́λω mandálō	μᾰ́νδᾰλοι mándaloi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• μᾰνδᾰλόω (mandalóō)
• μᾰνδᾰλωτός (mandalōtós)

 

Descendants

• Greek: μάνταλο (mántalo)
• → Ottoman Turkish: ماندال (mandal), مندال (mandal), مندل (mendal)
  • Turkish: mandal
  • → Albanian: mandal
  • → Armenian: մանտալ (mantal)
  • → Azerbaijani: mandal
  • → Bulgarian: ма́нда́ло (mándálo), манда́л (mandál)
  • → Northern Kurdish: mendel
  • → Macedonian: мандал (mandal)
  • → Megleno-Romanian: mandalu
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ма̀ндал

    Latin script: màndal

Further reading

• “μάνδαλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 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