[gothic-l] Eruli: The IE Etymology XII

[keth at ONLINE.NO]

Bertil wrote:
>Old Icelandic jormuni 'ox,horse' had posed a problem for the old etymology:
>it was traced to another root 'fit', and even *ermana-/*ermina-
>*ermuna- was sometimes derived from this root and explained 
>as 'firmly joined, massive'...


Old Icelandic "jormuni"  (with "hooked o")
does not mean a "horse" or an "ox".
It is merely listed in the Thulur as a possible poetic name
for a horse or an ox:

Øxna heiti. [B1 - 669]
2. Himinhriot, cattle
and hard-goer,
Hæfir [hoofed], stout one,
roarer, stot,
Hlid, Stuf and Lit,
Hrid [storm], draughtox,
Arf [inheritance], Iormuni
and mighty smith.


>Erulically
>
>Bertil

The Heruls brighten the waves !

Keth



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