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mont

See also: Mont, Mont., Mǫnt, and mønt

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French mont.

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mont (plural monts)

  1. mount; mountain.

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Antillean Creole

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Etymology

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From French montre.

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mont

  1. watch; clock

Breton

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Etymology

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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”).

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Verb

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mont

  1. (intransitive) to go

Inflection

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Mutation of mont
unmutated soft aspirate hard mixed
mont vont unchanged unchanged vont

Conjugation

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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-

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Catalan mont, from Latin montem.

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mont m (plural monts)

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

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Franco-Provençal

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mont (Old Beaujolais, Old Dauphinois)

  1. Alternative form of mondo (“world”)

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French mont, from Latin montem.

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mont m (plural monts)

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

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Friulian

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Etymology

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From Latin montem, accusative of mōns.

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mont m (plural monts)

  1. mountain, mount
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Icelandic

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mont n (genitive singular monts, no plural)

  1. boasting, bragging
    Synonyms: gort, grobb, raup, sjálfshól
  2. conceit, arrogance
    Synonym: yfirlæti

Declension

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Declension of mont (sg-only neuter)
singular
indefinite definite
nominative mont montið
accusative mont montið
dative monti montinu
genitive monts montsins

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  • monta (“to boast, to brag”)
  • montinn (“boastful; conceited, arrogant”)

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  • Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2024), “mont”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies

Ingrian

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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?

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mont

  1. Alternative form of monta

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

Ladin

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Etymology

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From Latin montem, accusative of mōns.

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mont f (plural montes)

  1. mountain, mount, plateau

Lombard

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Etymology

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

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mont m

  1. mountain

Middle Dutch

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Etymology

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

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mont m

  1. mouth (opening in the head)

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

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Middle English

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mont

  1. Alternative form of mount

Norman

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Etymology

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

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mont m (plural monts)

  1. (Jersey, geography) hill

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Occitan

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Etymology

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

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mont m

  1. mount

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Old French

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

  1. mountain
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Etymology 2

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See monde

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

  1. Alternative form of monde

Old Spanish

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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

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Etymology

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From Latin mons.

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mont m

  1. mount, mountain

Romanian

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Etymology

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From bont.

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mont n (plural monturi)

  1. bunion

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative mont montul monturi monturile
genitive-dative mont montului monturi monturilor
vocative montule monturilor
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