Talk:Ermin
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Middle English. Chaucer supposedly used this to mean "an Armenian". It seems likely he was just talking about ermine. (What need would he have had to specifically refer to Armenians in any case, I wonder?) This, that and the other (talk) 11:03, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
- The term occurs as a proper noun (“king Ermin”) in the metrical romance Sir Beves of Hamtoun.[1] Ermin is king of Armenia. I have not found where Chaucer uses the term. --Lambiam 13:50, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
- Here you go. In the form Ermyn. Vahag (talk) 17:30, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Lambiam, @Vahagn Petrosyan Thanks, I should have looked here first. Are you both okay with the entry being moved to Ermyn? I know Webster had the habit of modernising spellings, but I don't understand why MED lemmatises it as "Ermin" when this form doesn't seem to be attested. Am I missing something? This, that and the other (talk) 12:40, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
- I don't know anything about Middle English and how it should be normalized. Vahag (talk) 13:00, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
- @Lambiam, @Vahagn Petrosyan Thanks, I should have looked here first. Are you both okay with the entry being moved to Ermyn? I know Webster had the habit of modernising spellings, but I don't understand why MED lemmatises it as "Ermin" when this form doesn't seem to be attested. Am I missing something? This, that and the other (talk) 12:40, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
- Moved to Ermyn, which is cited, so passed. - -sche (discuss) 21:52, 22 March 2024 (UTC)