Re: I, Hercules [was: A "Germanic" query]

It may be etymologisable, but certainly not like that. Germanic
*ermVn- doe not mean 'guest' or 'friend', but 'huge', 'mighty', etc.

Piotr

--- In cybalist@..., "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> Reading E. Benveniste: Indo-European Language and Society, London
> 1973 it dawned on me that <ermin> is definitely not
unetymologizable.
>
> Old Persian <Aryaman>
> Modern Persian <e:rma:n> "guest"
> Ossetic <ilman> "friend"
>
> But now I learn that <armen> is also a personal name in Armenian.
>
> Surfing on the net for Thuringian migration time history I discover
> that around 0 CE it was invaded and settled by the Hermunduri (The
> Ermun-dur-i in Tor-ing-ia, get it? Know what I mean (nudge-nudge,
> wink-wink?),
>
> asked
> Torsten