Re: Possible connection between "ermine" and "harm"?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...>
wrote:

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> Could be "mus armenius" a folk-etymology for the Germanic *harman?

The ermine is present in Alps, why would the Romans call
it "armenius"?

>
> Joao SL
>
> Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham@...> escreveu: --- In

cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "C. Darwin Goranson"

> <cdog_squirrel@...> wrote:
>
> > Aside from the clear trouble from the possible existance of

a "p" in

> *(p)k^órmos, are there any other major troubles in this

comparison?

>
> There is of course a problem in the title word - _ermine_ is also
> derived from Medieval Latin _(mus) Armenius_ (lterally Armenian

mouse).

I think that Latvian SARMULIS and Lithuanian SHARMUONIS comes from
Baltic-Indo-Iranian word SARMA, meaning RIME, FROST.

Regards, Aigius