--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: tgpedersen
> To: cybalist@...
> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 4:02 PM
> Subject: [tied] Re: I, Hercules [was: A "Germanic" query]
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>
> > As to the (H)erminones, I *could* in fact come up with an
alternative, if our excellent playing referee hadn't forbidden any
further exploration along that line.
>
> "Erminones" is the Latinised plural or *ermVn-o:n-, a weak-stem
derivative of the same morpheme that appears as <erman->, <irmin->,
<irman->, <jOrmun->, <eormen-> in proper names as well as numerous
compounds all across Germania. It had been largely delexicalised by
historical times, serving as a mere intensifying prefix, but it must
have been a real word once, meaning something like 'power', judging
from its collocations. "Erminones" are 'the Mighty Ones'. This is the
standard explanation, and it seems unassailable to me.
>
> > Suffice it to say that Dio Cassius and Plutarch call Arminius,
the leader of the Germani, "Armenius". It wouldn't be the last time
that the Germans had a general of that particular nation.
>
> You mean Armenian, or what?
>
> Piotr
Now I'm getting all nervous, since this is down the path I wasn't
supposed to explore, but since you ask me, yes.
And since you brought up that subject, I came across this website
looking for something else
http://www.arminco.com/hayknet/tapan.htm
A god named Asatur? Sounds a lot like Asathor to me. The question is:
Is this guy a Loennroth or a McPherson?
cf
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/12131
Torsten