girmis

== Old Prussian == === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kírmis, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷŕ̥mis. Cognate with Lithuanian kirmis (“worm”), Latvian cirmenis and Proto-Slavic *čьrvь (“worm”). === Noun === girmis m maggot === References === Mažiulis, Vytautas (1988–1997), “girmis”, in Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas [Etymological Dictionary of Old Prussian]‎[1] (in Lithuanian), Vilnius G. H. F. Nesselmann (1873), “girmis”, in Thesaurus linguae prussicae. Der preussische Vocabelvorrath [...] (in German), Berlin: Ferd. Dümmlers Verlagsbuchhandlung; Harrwitz & Gossmann, page 48