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Mont-Blanc
Mont-Blanc comes from French Mont-Blanc.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentMont-Blancliterally ‘white mountain’
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentMont-Blancliterally ‘white mountain’
- Englishtodaysame form
A compound of mont ‘mount’ + blanc ‘white’
Proto-Indo-European *men- ‘to stand out, to tower’
Proto-Indo-European *móntis
Proto-Italic *monts
Latin mōns ‘mountain, mount’
Old French mont
French mont ‘mount’
Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- ‘to shine’
Proto-Germanic *blankaz ‘bright, shining, blinding, white’
Frankish *blank
Early Medieval Latin blancus
Old French blanc ‘white’
Middle French blanc ‘white’
French blanc ‘white’
The story
Borrowed from French Mont-Blanc (literally “white mountain”), from mont (‘mount’) + blanc (‘white’).
Every English word from French Mont-Blanc
Today it means
name A municipality of Les Laurentides Regional County Municipality, Laurentides, Quebec, Canada
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French Mont-Blanc / Mont-Blanc