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[Facts] Argimiro
The Spanish Argimiro comes from the Medieval Argimirus, Latinisation of a Germanic personal name (of Visigothic tradition). The first element, argi, is from doubtful etymology: a) maybe related with the old German *arga, "shy, prudent, cautious" and also "miser" (De Felice); b) from the Germanic aircan/ercan, "free, sincere, authentic, noble" (Tibón);c) from *harjis, variant of hari, "army" (J.M. Piel).The second element is, as you pointed, the Germanic element mir, a variant of mar, "famous".
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Thank you, Lumia. :)Made you look. ;)
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