- σανδαράκη
- σανδαράκη, -άχηGrammatical information: f.Meaning: `sandarac, red arsenic sulphide, realgar, red orpiment' (Hp., Arist., Thphr. a.o.), `bee-bread' (Arist.).Compounds: σανδαρακ-ούργιον n. `sandarac pit' (Str.).Derivatives: -ινος `sandarac-coloured, bright red' (Hdt. α.ο.), -ίζω `to be sandarac-coloured' (Dsc.).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: Orient. LW [loanword] of unknown source. Nehring Glotta 14. 182 reminds of the PlN Σανδαράκη (harbour-town on the Black-Sea). Acc. to a quite uncertain supposition by Uhlenbeck PBBeitr. 19, 327ff. from OInd. *candra-rāga- `moon-coloured' (?), which Cuendet (s. Mayrhofer s. candanaḥ) would like to change in a as hypothetic *candana-rāga- `sand-coloured'. -- The variation κ\/χ points to a Pre-Greek word. Cf. on σάνδυξ.Page in Frisk: 2,675
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.