köken: Inherited from Middle French hermin, ermin, from Old French ermin, ermine, hermine (“ermine”), from either Medieval Latin (mus) Armenius (“Armenian (mouse)”) (see Armenia) or Frankish *harmīn (“ermine”, adjective) (from *harmō (“ermine”)). More at ermine.
stoat, ermine (Mustela erminea) · ermine · ermine, the white fur of the stoat
çekim: çoğul hermelijnen
köken: From Middle Dutch hermelijn, a diminutive of hermel, harmel, from Old Dutch *hermilo, itself also a diminutive, of *harmo, from Proto-Germanic *harmô. By surface analysis, hermel + -lijn; hermel (also harmel) survived into early Modern Dutch. Cognate with Middle Low German hermelīn, German Hermelin.
From Middle High German hermelīn, from Old High German harmilī, diminutive of harmo (“ermine”), from Proto-Germanic *harmô. Cognates outside Germanic only in Latvian sermulis and Lithuanian šarmuõ, šermuõ. The monophthong -i- in modern German (alongside obsolete Hermlein, Hermelein) as well as the final stress can be explained natively, as being from a non-diphthongising dialect on the one hand,…