Reconstruction talk:Proto-Germanic/armahertaz

RFD discussion: August–September 2019
I am quite sure that this did not exist in Proto-Germanic. My explanation would either be:


 * That both supposed descendants of this term are in fact separate calques of Latin misericors.
 * That the calques are not separate but that the Gothic calque may have influenced word choice in the formation of later West-Germanic Christian terminology, as e.g. with sambaztag and some other OHG terms (as a matter of fact, this term is also attested as unarmherz in OHG, which is not mentioned in the entry). (I can provide citations and further examples of Gothic-OHG influence if desired.)

To elaborate: Köbler and Lehmann both consider the Gothic term (and Lehmann also explicitly mentions the WGmc terms as being calques, with possible Gothic-OHG influence) a calque of misericors and indeed the correspondence between the constituent parts of the compounds makes this extremely likely in my view. This fits within the broader picture of Gothic (and Germanic in general) Christian terminology which consists largely calques (including semantic calques) of Latin and Greek terms, and, as it happens, armahairts / armherz / earmheort is a very Christian term which I don't think occurs in any pagan context and is anyway quite at odds with what we know of pre-Christian values. This more or less precludes a Proto-Germanic term on historical grounds anyway, as Christian communities were still rather insignificant and almost entirely restricted to the Greek East when late Proto-Germanic was still a thing and Gothic had not yet split off from the rest of the Germanic dialects (which happened sometime in the late 1st or 2nd century AD). — Mnemosientje (t · c) 14:41, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete obviously, this is like a Proto-Germanic reconstruction for television. Fay Freak (talk) 19:29, 24 August 2019 (UTC)


 * RFD deleted. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 02:09, 10 September 2019 (UTC)