mont

See also: Mont, Mont., and mønt

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French mont.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mɒn/, /mɒ̃(n)/
  • Audio (Southern England)(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
  Mutation of mont  
Breton consonant mutation
unmutatedsoftaspiratehardmixed
mont vont unchanged unchanged vont

Conjugation
Conjugation of mont
Personal forms
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

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

French

Etymology

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

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

Noun

mont m (plural monts)

  1. (Used in certain geographic names) mountain, mount, mont
  2. (In the plural) the Alps

Derived terms

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, A. Kolesova, transl., 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
    • 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
  • Audio(file)

Noun

mont m

  1. mount

Synonyms

Old French

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

  1. mountain
Descendants

Etymology 2

See monde

Noun

mont 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 ṫcero al alba dela man. ¬ vinẏerȯ truenos ¬ relȧpagos ¬ nuf grȧt ſobrel mȯt.
      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
Declension of mont
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) mont montul (niște) monturi monturile
genitive/dative (unui) mont montului (unor) monturi monturilor
vocative montule monturilor
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