Hermelin

Etymology
From, from , diminutive of , from. Cognates outside Germanic only in 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬,.

The monophthong -i- in modern German (alongside obsolete, ) 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 , , on the other. However, it seems likely that both developments were reinforced by Romance words such as, ,. The origin of these latter is contested; they are either borrowed from Germanic or go back to an unrelated.

Noun

 * 1)  ermine
 * 2)  ermine

Noun

 * 1) ermine white fur of the ermine
 * 2) A moth ( ( spp.))