Re: Ermine

Germanic forms have A instead of E - HARMO. So, can it be that
SHERMUONËLIS and SERMULIS were derivered from Lithuanian word SHARMA
and Latvian word SARMA, meaning RIME, FROST?
SHARMA > SHARMUOLIS > SHARMUONËLIS > SHERMUONËLIS
SARMA > SARMULIS > SERMULIS ?
Regards, Aigius

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "whetex_lewx" <whetex_lewx@...>
wrote:

> hoary - O.E. har "gray, venerable, old," the connecting notion

being

> gray hair, from P.Gmc. *khairaz, from PIE *koi-. Ger. retains the
> word as a title of respect, in Herr.
>
> ermine - c.1175, from O.Fr. hermine, both the animal and the fur,
> apparently from a convergence of L. (mus) Armenius "Armenian
> (mouse)," ermines being abundant in Asia Minor; and an unrelated
> Gmc. word for "weasel" (cf. O.H.G. harmo "ermine, stoat, weasel,"
> adj. harmin; O.Saxon harmo, O.E. hearma, etc.).
>
> (Douglas Harper, ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY [of English language])
>
> Also Lithuanian s^erm-uo~, serm-uon-e:~l-is
> Lv. sermulis
>
> what is origin of that word?
>
> As my knowledge reaches both germanic h and baltic s^ came from
> proto-indo-european *kh. So it shows that root was *kherm-/khorm-.
>
> Also lithuanian s^`irm-as/-is (grey, white, hoary), as i

understand

> it came from pie k(h)r.m-os. Could English hoary be related to

this?

>
> btw s^irmas is related to s^ermuo~ (white animal) because
> analogically Old Prussian Gaylux (ermine) is derivetive from

Gaylis

> (white, grey).