mont
English
Pronunciation
Derived terms
Breton
Alternative forms
Etymology
Suppletive verb; verbal noun from Proto-Brythonic *monetu (compare Welsh mynd, Cornish mones), verbal noun of Proto-Celtic *mon-ī- (compare Middle Irish muinithir (“goes around”)), from Proto-Indo-European *menH- (compare Umbrian menes (“will come”), Lithuanian mìnti (“to trample, scutch”)). Indicative forms from Proto-Celtic *ageti (“to drive”) (compare Old Irish aigid), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- (compare Latin agō). The forms in el- are from Proto-Celtic *ɸel- (“to approach, drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (compare Latin pellō (“strike, drive”), Epic Greek πίλναμαι (pílnamai, “approach”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɔ̃nt/
Inflection
Conjugation
Personal forms | |||||||
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Indicative | Conditional | Imperative | |||||
Present | Imperfect | Preterite | Future | Present | Imperfect | ||
1s | an | aen | is | in | afen | ajen | - |
2s | ez | aes | ejout | i | afes | ajes | kae (n'a in the negative) |
3s | a, ya | ae, yae | eas, yeas | ay, aio, yelo | afe, yafe | aje, yaje | aet |
1p | eomp | aemp | ejomp | aimp | afemp | ajemp | eomp, deomp |
2p | it | aec'h | ejoc'h | eot | afec'h | ajec'h | it, kit |
3p | eont | aent | ejont | aint | afent | ajent | aent |
0 | eer | aed | ejod | eor | afed | ajed | - |
Impersonal forms | Mutated forms | ||||||
Infinitive | mont, monet | Soft mutation after a | a ya- | ||||
Present participle | o vont | Mixed mutation after e | ez a- | ||||
Past participle | aet (auxiliary verb: bezañ) | Soft mutation after ne/na | n'a- |
Derived terms
- mont en-dro
- mont kuit
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Old Catalan mont, from Latin montem.
Pronunciation
Derived terms
Related terms
References
- “mont” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “mont”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “mont” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “mont” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Franco-Provençal
References
- mont in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mŭndus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 218
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French mont, from Latin montem.
Derived terms
(proper nouns):
Further reading
- “mont”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Friulian
Related terms
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɔn̥t/
- Rhymes: -ɔn̥t
Derived terms
- monthani (“boaster, braggart”)
- montrass (“boaster, braggart”)
Ingrian
Pronunciation
- (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈmont/, [ˈmo̞nd]
- (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈmont/, [ˈmo̞nd̥]
- Rhymes: -ont
- Hyphenation: mont
Determiner
mont (+ partitive)
- Alternative form of monta
- 1937, N. S. Popova, translated by A. Kolesova, Arifmetikan oppikirja alkușkoulua vart (I. osa), Leningrad: Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 4:
- Mont sahhaaja? Mont tööläist?
- How many sawyers? How many workers?
References
- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 314
Ladin
Lombard
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch munt, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz.
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
Further reading
- “mont”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “mont (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
Middle English
Norman
Etymology
From Old French mont, from Latin montem, accusative of mōns.
Derived terms
- mont ès minnes (“slag heap”)
Occitan
Etymology
From Old Occitan, from Latin montem, accusative of mōns.
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Synonyms
- montanheta
- puèg
Related terms
Old French
Noun
mont oblique singular, m (oblique plural monz or montz, nominative singular monz or montz, nominative plural mont)
Etymology 2
See monde
Old Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmont/
Noun
mont m (plural montes)
- Apocopic form of monte; a mountain or hill.
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 18r:
- Fue el dia t̃cero al alba dela man. ⁊ vinẏerõ truenos ⁊ relãpagos ⁊ nuf grãt ſobrel mõt.
- It was the early morning of the third day, and there came thunder and flashes of lightning and a great cloud upon the mountain.
Romanian
Etymology
From bont.