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

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From: Piotr Gasiorowski

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Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 4:21 PM

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

Folk etymology implies a native model: what would that be? Why should *ermuna- have been reinterpreted as 'great'? And why twist both the form and the meaning just to force an etymology against obvious facts? BTW, <ermana-> occurs in Gothic, where it can't reflect <arjaman->, and even in early West Germanic the syncope you propose would have been unusual.

 

Piotr

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: João Simões Lopes Filho

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Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 7:30 PM

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

Could be *Ermunaz a corruption of expected *Erjaman-/Arjaman? Maybe an archaic oblique form *Erjamun- developed into *Erjamunaz>Ermunaz, lately folk-etymologized as "strong, powerful, great".

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