mound

mound · noun, verb¹

1. Proto-Indo-European · inherited from*mh₂-nt-éh₂“the beckoning one”
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*mundō“hand”
3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*mundu
4. Old English · inherited frommund“hand, hand of protection, protector, guardianship”
5. Middle English · inherited frommound
6. English todaymound

From earlier meaning "hedge, fence", from Middle English mound, mund (“protection, boundary, raised earthen rampart”), from Old English mund (“hand, hand of protection, protector, guardianship”), from Proto-West Germanic *mundu, from Proto-Germanic *mundō (“hand”), *munduz (“protection, patron”), from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂-nt-éh₂ (“the beckoning one”), from *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon”). Cognate with Old Frisian mund (“guardianship”), Middle Dutch mond (“protection”), Old High German munt (“hand, protection”) German Mündel (“ward”), Vormund (“guardian”)), Icelandic and Old Norse mund (“hand”), and possibly Latin manus (“hand”), Ancient Greek μάρη (márē, “hand”). Not related to mount.

Mound · proper noun²

From mound.

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