Editing Cherusci (section)

==Name==
Cherusci ({{IPA|la|kʰeːˈrus.kiː|lang}}) is the [[Latin language|Latin]] [[Latinisation of names|name]] for the tribe. Both it and the [[ancient Greek language|Greek]] form ''Khēroûskoi'' ({{lang|grc|Χηροῦσκοι}}) are presumably [[Transcription (linguistics)|transcription]]s of an otherwise unattested [[Old Germanic language|Old Germanic]] [[demonym]], whose [[etymology]] is unclear. The dominant opinion in scholarship is that it may derive from {{lang|goh|*herut}} ("[[hart (deer)|hart]]"), which may have had [[totem]]istic significance for the group.<ref>{{cite book |title=Reallexikon der Germanischen Alterturmskunde |year=1981 |volume=4 |page=430 ff}}, s.v. "Cherusker"; cf. also {{cite book|author1=Rudolf Much|author2=[[Herbert Jankuhn]]|author3=Wolfgang Lange|title=Die Germania des Tacitus|location=Heidelberg|publisher=Winter|year=1967|page=411}}</ref> Another hypothesis{{mdash}}proposed in the 19th century by [[Jacob Grimm]] and others{{mdash}}derives the name from {{lang|goh|*heru-}} ({{langx|got|hairus}}; {{lang|ang|heoru}}, a kind of [[sword]]).<ref>{{cite book|author=Jacob Grimm|title=Geschichte der Deutschen Sprache|edition=2nd|location=Leipzig|year=1853|volume=2|page=426}}</ref> Hans Kuhn has argued that the derivational suffix {{lang|goh|-sk-}} involved in both explanations is uncommon in Germanic. He suggested that the name may therefore be a compound of ultimately non-Germanic origin and connected to the hypothesized {{lang|de|[[Nordwestblock]]}}.<ref>{{cite book |title=Reallexikon der Germanischen Alterturmskunde |year=1973 |volume=1 |pages=420–421, s.v}} "Arminius".</ref>