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

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> --- 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

--- In cybalist@..., "caraculiambro" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> It may be etymologisable, but certainly not like that. Germanic
> *ermVn- does not mean 'guest' or 'friend', but 'huge', 'mighty',
etc.
>
> Piotr
>
>
Yes, but actually it was the Germanicity of Arminius, Hermunduri, etc
that was called into question.

Torsten