English
amound
From a- + mound, compare amass; possibly influenced by amount.
Proto-Indo-European *uds- ‘up, out’
Proto-Germanic *uz- ‘out-’
Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- ‘up, out, over’
English a-
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
The story
From a- + mound, compare amass; possibly influenced by amount.
Today it means
verb To accumulate, to mound up, to amount.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / amound