Etymology

mountainside

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Today it means: The sloping side of a mountain. Full definition →

English side ← Middle English side ← Old English sīde
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The story

  1. Englishmountain
  2. Proto-Indo-European*seh₁-
  3. Proto-Germanic*sīdaz
  4. Proto-Germanic*sīdǭ
  5. Old Englishsīde
  6. Middle Englishside
  7. Englishside
  8. English todaymountainside

From mountain + side.

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