Mohn

German surname:

• from the noun Mohn (“poppy”),
• also from the old personal name Monrad, composed of the elements *mundiz (“thought, mind, spirit”) and *rēdaz (“counsel”),
• also a variant of Moehn, from Möhn near Trier.

Mohn (plural Mohns)

1. A surname from German.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Mohn is the 10298^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3129 individuals. Mohn is most common among White (92.75%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Mohn”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 605.

With widespread dialectal -ā- → -ō- (as also in ohne and wo) from obsolete Mahn, from Middle High German māhe, māhen (Central German also already mān), from Old High German māho, from Proto-West Germanic *māhō, from Proto-Germanic *mēhô. Compare the variant Old High German mago.

Cognate with Danish valmue, Swedish vallmo, Ancient Greek μήκων (mḗkōn) (Doric μάκων (mákōn)) and Old Church Slavonic макъ (makŭ) (Bulgarian мак (mak), Russian мак (mak), Serbo-Croatian мак, Czech mák).

• IPA^(key): /moːn/

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• Rhymes: -oːn

Mohn m (strong, genitive Mohnes or Mohns, plural Mohne)

1. poppy (Papaver)
2. (collective) poppyseeds

This noun is mostly used in the singular and as the first element of a compound. To talk about more than one poppy, the derived forms Mohnblumen (“poppy flowers”) and Mohnpflanzen (“poppy plants”) are more common. Because this word is also a collective, the singular refers to poppy seeds as a mass noun.

• → Estonian: moon

• “Mohn” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Mohn” in Duden online