English
Moundsville
In West Virginia, from mound + -s- + -ville.
Formed from mound + -s- + -ville
Proto-Indo-European *mh₂-nt-éh₂ ‘the beckoning one’
Proto-Germanic *mundō ‘hand’
Proto-West Germanic *mundu ‘hand’
Old English mund ‘hand, hand of protection, protector,…’
Middle English mound ‘protection, boundary, raised earthen rampart’
English mound
Today it means
name An unincorporated community in Noble County, Ohio, United States.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Moundsville