mont

See also: Mont, Mont., Mǫnt, and mønt

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French mont.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɒn/, /mɒ̃(n)/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒn
  • Homophones: mon, monts

Noun

mont (plural monts)

  1. mount; mountain.

Derived terms

Antillean Creole

Etymology

From French montre.

Noun

mont

  1. watch; clock

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/

Verb

mont

  1. (intransitive) to go

Inflection

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • mont en-dro
  • mont kuit

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan mont, from Latin montem.

Pronunciation

Noun

mont m (plural monts)

  1. (archaic or toponyms) mount, mountain
    Synonyms: munt, muntanya

Derived terms

References

Franco-Provençal

Noun

mont (Dauphinois, Lyonnais, Vaudois)

  1. Archaic form of mondo (world).

References

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French mont, from Latin montem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɔ̃/
  • (file)
  • Homophones: monts, mon

Noun

mont m (plural monts)

  1. mountain, mount, mont
  2. (in the plural) the Alps

Derived terms

(proper nouns):

Further reading

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin montem, accusative of mōns.

Noun

mont m (plural monts)

  1. mountain, mount

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔn̥t/
  • Rhymes: -ɔn̥t

Noun

mont n (genitive singular monts, no plural)

  1. boasting, bragging
  2. conceit, arrogance

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • monthani (boaster, braggart)
  • montrass (boaster, braggart)
  • monta (to boast, to brag)
  • montinn (boastful; conceited, arrogant)

Ingrian

Pronunciation

Determiner

mont (+ partitive)

  1. 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?

Determiner

mont

  1. Alternative form of monta

References

  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 314

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin montem, accusative of mōns.

Noun

mont f (plural montes)

  1. mountain, mount, plateau

Lombard

Etymology

From Latin mons. Cognates include Italian monte and French mont.

Noun

mont m

  1. mountain

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch munt, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz.

Noun

mont m

  1. mouth (opening in the head)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Dutch: mond, mont
    • Afrikaans: mond
    • Javindo: mon
    • Negerhollands: mond, mon, mun, mont
      • Virgin Islands Creole: mon, mout (dated)
    • Petjo: mon
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: mont
  • Limburgish: móndj

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

Noun

mont

  1. Alternative form of mount

Norman

Etymology

From Old French mont, from Latin montem, accusative of mōns.

Noun

mont m (plural monts)

  1. (Jersey, geography) hill

Derived terms

  • mont ès minnes (slag heap)

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Latin montem, accusative of mōns.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

mont m

  1. mount

Synonyms

Old French

Etymology 1

From Latin montem, accusative of mōns. Doublet with montaigne.

Noun

mont oblique singular, m (oblique plural monz or montz, nominative singular monz or montz, nominative plural mont)

  1. mountain
Descendants

Etymology 2

See monde

Noun

mont oblique singular, m (oblique plural monz or montz, nominative singular monz or montz, nominative plural mont)

  1. Alternative form of monde

Old Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmont/

Noun

mont m (plural montes)

  1. 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.

Piedmontese

Etymology

From Latin mons.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /muŋt/

Noun

mont m

  1. mount, mountain

Romanian

Etymology

From bont.

Noun

mont n (plural monturi)

  1. bunion

Declension

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