amount

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
2. Proto-Italic*ad
3. Latinad
4. Old Frencha
5. Proto-Indo-European*men-
6. Proto-Indo-European*móntis
7. Proto-Italic*monts
8. Latinmōns
9. Old Frenchmont
10. Old Frenchamont
11. Old Frenchamonter
12. Middle Englishamounten
13. English todayamount

From Middle English amounten (“to mount up to, come up to, signify”), from Old French amonter (“to amount to”), from amont, amunt (“uphill, upward”), from the prepositional phrase a mont (“toward or to a mountain or heap”), from Latin ad montem, from ad (“to”) + montem, accusative of mons (“mountain”).

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