Sorry all, I did a horrible job of cutting & pasting during my previous attempt to ask this question...
Sergei Nikolayev's, Indo-European Etymologic Database at the Tower of Babel website
(
http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/main.cgi?root=config )
gives: the PIE root *swer-(1) "to speak, talk"
as the source of Old Greek: hermaneuo verdolmetschen, ubersetzen; deuten, auslegen, erklaren, hermaneu-s m. Dolmetscher, Ubersetzer; Deuter, Ausleger (accents removed for formatting)
As I read neither Greek nor German, I am uncertain what this states about the various Old Greek terms, but it appears to my patheticly uninformed eyes, to suggest that *swer-(1) might be a possible origin for "Hermes".
Am I correct in this assumption?
Regards,
Aydan