Non-IE roots in Germanic/@, a, e, i, j, o, u

[Brian M. Scott]

Rick Mc Callister wrote:

> arimanno "warrior" [It < Germanic] [tv84]

Isn't this a compound, *harja- 'army' + *manna- 'man'?  The first at
least doesn't seem peculiarly Germanic, to judge by the cognates given
in Buck's dictionary.  (I don't have ready access to the Vennemann
reference, I'm afraid, so I don't know what argument he makes.)

Brian M. Scott