Hermelin – German noun declension

Noun: Hermelin
Gender: Neuter, Masculine
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Nominative

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Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like Hermelin

Hydroxyaldehyd, Nickelin, Kohlweißling, Pflegling, Funktionsbaustein, Einkristall, Partyspiel, Schrankpapier, Türspion, Reinigungsbenzin, Saibling, Atommodell, Verdrängungswettbewerb, Histamin, Hexachlorid, Natriumberyllat, Leadhillit, Speierling, Wachtelkönig, Postalveolar, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. 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.
2. 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, and by comparing the irregular stress shift in such words as Holunder, Wacholder, lebendig on the other. However, it seems likely that both developments were reinforced by Romance words such as Italian ermellino, armellino, French hermine. The origin of these latter is contested; they are either borrowed from Germanic or go back to an unrelated Medieval Latin Armenius mūs (literally “Armenian mouse”). See: Latvian Nouns 'sermulis', Italian Nouns 'ermellino', French Nouns 'hermine'.

Verbs referencing "Hermelin"

Dutch Nouns hermelijn, Danish Nouns hermelin, Hungarian Nouns hermelin, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns hermelin, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns hermelin, Swedish Nouns hermelin, English Nouns ermelin, Latvian Nouns sermulis, Czech Nouns hermelín.

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