The story
- Middle English · inherited fromcatte of the mountayne
- Middle English · inherited fromcatamountain
- English todaycatamount
Clipping of catamountain (“leopard, panther; ocelot; man living in the mountains”), from Late Middle English catamountain, from Middle English catte of the mountayne, cate of þe mounttaynne (“leopard, panther”).
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishcatamountain all →
Middle Englishcatte of the mountayne all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.