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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/harmô
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ḱormō (“weasel”).
Noun
*harmô m[1]
- ermine, weasel
Inflection
masculine an-stemDeclension of *harmô (masculine an-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *harmô | *harmaniz | |
vocative | *harmô | *harmaniz | |
accusative | *harmanų | *harmanunz | |
genitive | *harminiz | *harmanǫ̂ | |
dative | *harmini | *harmammaz | |
instrumental | *harminē | *harmammiz |
Derived terms
- *harmǭ
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *harmō
- Old English: hearma
- Old Frisian: *harma
- ⇒ Old Frisian: *harmel
- West Frisian: harmel
- ⇒ Old Frisian: *harmel
- Old Saxon: harmo
- Middle Low German: harm
- ⇒ German Low German: Hermanntje
- ⇒ Old Saxon: *hermil
- Middle Low German: hermel
- Middle Low German: harm
- Old Dutch: *harmo
- Middle Dutch: *herme
- Dutch: herm (rare, now obsolete)
- ⇒ Middle Dutch: hermijn
- →? Icelandic: hermín
- ⇒ Old Dutch: *hermilo
- Middle Dutch: hermel
- Dutch: hermel
- ⇒ Middle Dutch: hermelijn
- Dutch: hermelijn
- Middle Dutch: hermel
- Middle Dutch: *herme
- → Old French: hermin, ermin
- Middle French: hermin, ermin m
- French: hermine f
- → Middle English: ermin
- English: ermine
- Scots: ermyn, ermyng, armine, arming
- Middle French: hermin, ermin m
- Old High German: harmo
- Middle High German: harme
- German: Harm
- ⇒ Old High German: harmilo
- ⇒ Old High German: harmilīn
- Middle High German: hermelīn
- German: Hermelin
- → Danish: hermelin
- → Swedish: hermelin
- → Norwegian Bokmål: hermelin
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: hermelin
- German: Hermelin
- Middle High German: hermelīn
- ⇒ Old High German: harmilīn
- Middle High German: harme
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*harman-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 212