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Middle English
Etymology
From Old French Ermin, from Latin Armenius.
Noun
Ermyn
- an Armenian
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Monkes Tale, in the Hengwrt MS of Chaucer's Canterbury tales:
- The Emperour of Rome / Claudius
- Ne hym biforn / the Romayn Galien
- Ne dorsten neuere / been so corageus
- Ne noon Ermyn / ne noon Egipcien
- No Surryen / ne noon Arabien
- With-Inne the feeldes / þat dorste with hire fighte
- Lest þat she wolde / hem with hir handes slen
- Or with hire meynee / putten hem to flighte.
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