Etymology

sandek

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Today it means: A person honoured at a Jewish brit milah by holding the baby boy in his lap as the mohel performs the circumcision. Full definition →

Yiddish סנדק ← Hebrew סַנְדָּק ← Ancient Greek σύντεκνος
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  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromσύντεκνος
  2. Hebrew · derived fromסַנְדָּק
  3. Yiddish · derived fromסנדק
  4. English todaysandek

From Yiddish סנדק (sandek), from Hebrew סַנְדָּק (sandák), most likely from Ancient Greek σύντεκνος (súnteknos, literally “companion of child”), from συν- (sun-) + τέκνον (téknon).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.