μανυ-

μάνυ· πικρόν (fort. leg. μικρόν) , Ἀθαμᾶνες, Hsch. [full] μάνυζα, ἡ,

A = μώλυζα, Id.

Grammatical information: adj.

Meaning: `thin, loose, open in texture, rare' (IA., Emp. 75, 1, μᾰνός (Telecl. 61); βανόν s. below.

Compounds: Compp., e.g. μᾰνό-στημος `with loose chain, thin, fine' (A. Fr. 297 = 688 Mette).

Derivatives: μανότης `thinness, rareness' (Pl., Arist., Thphr.), μανία `id.' (An. Ox.); μανώδης `thin' (Arist.); μανάκις `rare' (Pl. Com., H.: πολλάκις); μανόω `loosen' (Thphr.) with μάνωσις (Arist.). - With dissimilation (?) βανόν λεπτόν H.

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]

Etymology: Beside Ion. μᾱνός, Att. μᾰνός from *μανϜός stands μάνυ μικρόν (cod. πικρόν). Άθαμᾶνες H.; on u: ŭo Chantraine Form. 122, Schwyzer 472. The u-stem can be seen in Arm. manr, gen. manu `small, thin, fine', manu-k `child, boy, servant'; but on μάνυ-ζα s.v. After Brugmann RhM 62, 634f. here also μαναύεται παρέλκεται H. (prop. `isolates himself'? but the - αυ- remains unexplained); rejected by Hahn Lang. 18, 88) and, quite uncertain, βάναυσος (s. v.). Albanian combination by Mann Lang. 17,21: to mêj, aor. mêna (\< *mn̥i̯ō) `I lessen, cease, stop'. S. also Mezger Word 2, 237. Others further connect Skt. manā́k `a lttle', Lith. meñkas `short', Hitt. maninku- `close', all of unclear formation. Still OIr. menb \< *menu̯o- (Benveniste, BSL 50, 1954, 41). μανυ- from *mn̥h₂-u-? (cf. μανώδης, μαν-άκις) which conflicts with the etymology of menb. Cf. Pok. 728? Here perhaps μόνος. For Pre-Greek, Fur. 221 on good grounds.

See also: -- Weiteres s. μόνος.

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μανός [v. fin.], ή, όν, of consistency,

A loose or open in texture, rare, opp. πυκνός, Emp.75.1, Hp.VM22, etc.; μ. ὀστοῦν, σάρκες, Pl.Ti. 75c, 79c; τὰ μ. καὶ κοῦφα, opp. πυκνὰ καὶ βαρέα, ib. 53a; of the tongue,

σὰρξ μ. καὶ σομφή Arist.HA 492b33

; of the female breasts, ib. 493a14; of the lungs,

μ. καὶ πολύτρητος ὁ πνεύμων Aret.SD1.10

.

II rare, sparse, infrequent, of hare-tracks, X.Cyn.5.4 ([comp] Sup.); of pleasures and pains, Pl.Lg. 734c ([comp] Comp.); of hair, Arist.HA 498b25; of plants, growing far apart, Thphr.HP1.8.2; but of trees or plants, spreading, ib.3.11.5, al.

2 happening rarely or at intervals, in Adv. -νῶς, τοσούτῳ μανότερον so much the less often, X.Cyr.7.5.6;

τῇ ἀναπνοῇ χρῆται μανότερον Arist.Resp. 475b25

, cf. Thphr.Sign.32.—[dialect] Att. for ἀραιός, acc. to Phryn.PSp.89B. [[pron. full] ᾰ Telecl.61, cf. Hdn.Gr.2.13, and v. μανόστημος: [pron. full] ᾱ Emp.l.c. (prob. only [dialect] Ion. in spite of Phryn. l.c.): [comp] Comp. μανότερος Pl.l.c., Arist.Ph. 217a6, GA 782a34 (later

μανώτερος Gal.18(1).83

): [comp] Sup. μανότατος X.l.c.] (Perh. for μᾰν ϝός, cf. μάνυ, OIr. menb 'small'.)

Grammatical information: n.

Meaning: `philtre, charm, block of a pulley' (Hero Bel., Pap. III<sup>p</sup>), [`eiserner Pflock, Bolzen'] (Sch.), `throwing machine, ballista, tormentum' (Gloss., H.), `means to deceive, bewitch' (Heracl. All., H.).

Derivatives: μαγγανάριος `deceiver' (pap. III<sup>p</sup>), `mechanic' (Papp.), will be a loan from Latin. Denomin. verb μαγγανεύω `deceive, bewitch with artificial means, play tricks' with μαγγαν-εία `trickery' (Pl. Lg., Ph.), - εύματα pl. `charms, philtres' (Pl., Plu.), - ευτής `impostor, quack' (Suid., Phot.), - ευτικη τέχνη `agical art' (Poll.), - εύτριαι pl. H. s. βαμβακεύ-τριαι, - ευτήριον `haunt for impostors' (Them.).

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]

Etymology: The word got as a loan a wide spread: Lat. manganum `machine' (to Rom., e.g. Ital. mangano `sling') with the unclear byform mangō `a handler, who promotes his ware by artificial means' (from hell. *μάγγων?), from where mangōnium `dressing up ware', Alb. mangë `hemp-brake', mengji `medicine', MHG MLG mange `throwing-machine', NHG Mange(l) `smoothing roll(?) for laundry' (from where Balt., e.g. Lith. mañgalis `mangling-machine'). If we forget these loans, a few words from the farthest east and west remain, which have been connected as cognate with μάγγανον: Skt. mañju-, mañjula- `beautiful, sweet, charming', maṅgala n. `happiness, salvation, good omen' (all ep. class.), Osset. mäng `deceit'; Celt., MIr. meng `deceit, cleverness, ruse' (but Toch. A maṅk `guilt, fault, sin', adduced by Schneider, together with B meṅki `id.', also `smaller', with μανός, μάνυ). To this rather motley collection one may add further the group of μάσσω `knead', through which the most wide combinations can be made. - Lit. in Bq, WP. 2, 233, Pok. 731, W.-Hofmann s. mangō; esp. Meringer IF 19, 436f. a. 21, 282, whose attempts to make the history of these words concrete, are in principle no doubt correct, even when they lack confirmation or are in detail even wrong. - From an IE root * meng- (Pok. 731) the Greek form cannot be derived; the word must then be Pre-Greek (as was already stated by W.- Hofmann s.v. mango), where mang-an- is unproblematic. The Sanskrit words are semantically too far off (perh. they are of Dravidian origin, Mayrhofer KEWA547, 553 and EWAia 379f.). (Such isolated Sanskrit comparisons with Greek must often be discarded.) The other words will be loans from Latin. (Lith. mañgalis is a loan from German.) The original meaning was no doubt as Frisk assumed a technical instrument. The meaning `hemp-brake' goes in the same direction, but the meaning ballista I cannot easily combine. The meaning `mangling-machine' recurs several times (Germ. `Glättroll für Wäsche'). It served to `embellish' the cloths. From there the notion of deceit. It is a good example of the long life of a Pre-Greek word which was by some considered as IE.

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Grammatical information: v.

Meaning: `lessen, curtail', also trans. `reduce' (Il.).

Other forms: μινυνθάνω PMich.); ipf. - ύθεσκον ( ἐμινύθει Hp.), fut. μινυθήσω, aor. - ῆσαι, perf. μεμινύθηκα (Hp.).

Compounds: Rarely with περι-, συν-, ἀπο-.

Derivatives: Medical terms: μινύθ-ησις f. `waning', - ήματα pl. `what is lessening, dying members', - ώθης `weak, lessening' (Hp.; on the verbal derivation Chantraine Form. 431), - ικός `diminishing' (Cael. Aur.). -- Besides μίνυνθα adv. `(only) a short time' with μινυνθάδιος `lasting a short time' (Il.).

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [711] * min(e)u- `lessen, diminish'

Etymology: Built after the synonym φθινύθω, either from a νυ-present (: Lat. minu-ō, *φθίνϜ-ω) or from an adj. *μινύς ( βαρύθω: βαρύς), which seems preserved as 1. member in a few though late and rarely attested compp.: μινύ-ωρος, - ώριος `living a short time' (AP), μινύ-ζηον ὀλιγό-βιον H. Also in μίνυνθα one has supposed the same adj., i. e. in the acc. *μινύν (with - θα after the opposite δηθά a.o.) Osthoff MU 6, 232ff.; slight objections by Wackernagel Gött. Nachr. 1914, 106 = Kl. Schr. 2, 1163). An IE adj. * minu-s is also supposed by Lat. minu-ō, prob. also by minus (second. s-stem) and is assumed also for Celtic and Germanic. If we detract a suffixal - nu-, we can connect μείων etc. (s.v.). On a possible confusion with μάνυ, μανός `thin' s. Wackernagel Festgabe II. Jacobi [1926] 3 (= Kl. Schr. 1, 419); on μινύθω s. also Schwyzer 697, Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 326 f. More details in WP. 2, 242, Pok. 711, W.-Hofmann s. minor.

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