Etymograph

English

mount

Mount comes from Old English munt, borrowed from Latin mōns ‘hill, mountain’, from Proto-Indo-European *men- ‘to stand out’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*men-‘to stand out, tower’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*móntis‘hill, mountain’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*monts‘mountain’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmōns‘hill, mountain’
  5. Old Englishc. 450–1150munt‘hill, mountain’
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500mount‘mountain’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1611mount

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*men-‘to stand out, tower’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*móntis‘hill, mountain’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*monts‘mountain’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmōns‘hill, mountain’
  5. Old Englishc. 450–1150munt‘hill, mountain’
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500mount‘mountain’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1611mount

Earliest quotation: 1611, The Holy Bible, London: […] Robert Barker: “⸿ For thus hath the Lord of hoſtes said…”

The story

Not related to mound.

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *men- ‘to stand out’

music, mind, money, remain, museum, comment, mental, mention, auto, min, permanent, monster, mouth, monitor, demonstration, monetary, maya, mentor, amnesty, muse, monk, mint, dementia, menace, ming, mas, mandarin, monument, monastery, mania, muster, amnesia, eminent, manic, mosaic, summon, mantra, eminence, remnant, minion, 122 more

through Latin *mineō ‘to jut, project’

prominence, imminent

through Latin mōns ‘a hill, mountain’

monte, mont, mons, 13 more

Another origin of mount

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*men-‘to stand out, to tower’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*móntisreconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*montsreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmonsas montem‘mountain’
  5. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*montāre‘climb’reconstructed
  6. Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400munter
  7. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500mounten‘to climb atop a mount’
  8. Englishtodaymount

Today it means

noun A hill or mountain.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *men- / mount

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