1. μανδάκης · mandakēs — Beekes
The corpus record
μανδάκης
mandakes
in the form of a band
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What it meant
μανδάκης [m.] δεσμὸς χόρτου (band to tie trusses), sheaf, bundle’. *DER μανδάκιον [n.] (pap.); μανδακηδόν ‘in the form of a band’ (Hippiatr.). 900 μάνδαλος *ETYM Formation like » γαυνάκης. Is it perhaps a loan from Old Iranian banda-ka- ‘band, fetter’ via Thracian, in view of the development b > m? See recently Brust 2005: 415ff. The formation can hardly be IE. See » μάνδρα. — [Beekes, s.v. μανδάκης, p. 950]
2. μανδάκης · mandakēs — Chantraine
μανδάκης : «gerbe» (pap. 11° après), d'où μανδάκιον (ibid.), μάνδαξ (pap.) et μανδακηδόν «par gerbes » (Hippiatr.). — [Chantraine, s.v. μανδάκης, p. 680]
3. μανδάκης · mandakēs — Frisk
μανδάκης m. δεσμὸς χόρτου, Garbe, Bündel” mit μανδάκιον τι. (Pap.); μανδακηδόν "garbenweise’ (Hippiatr.). --- Bildung wie γαυνάκης (8. d.). Nach alter Annahme (Lagarde, Kretschmer Einl. 236, Vendryes BSL 41, 138) als thrakisches LW zu air. banda-ka- “Bande, Fessel’ mit thrak. Übergang von ὃ zu m. Anders Pisani Acme 1, 292: zu lat. manus und phryg. Öaxer, gr. dnx-n; noch anders ders. RhM 100, 389ff.: aus *mant-aka zu … — [Frisk, s.v. μανδάκης, p. 1141]
4. μανδάκης · mandakēs — LSJ
band to tie trusses, truss, in the form of a band, bundle, truss
band to tie trusses, e.g. of hay, etc., truss, τήλεως μανδάκαι Sammelb. 1959 (Oxyrhynchus, iii A. D.), cf. PFlor. 198.6 (iii A. D.), Hippiatr. 26:—Adv. μανδακηδόν, in the form of a band, ib. 52:—Dim. μανδάκιον, τό, bundle, truss, PRyl. 236.11 (iii A. D.).
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.