Etymology

mounting

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Today it means: That continues to mount; steadily rising or accumulating. Full definition →

English mount ← Middle English mounten ← Old French monter
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*men-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*móntis
  3. Proto-Italic*monts
  4. Latinmōns
  5. Vulgar Latin*montāre
  6. Old Frenchmonter
  7. Middle Englishmounten
  8. Englishmount
  9. English todaymounting

From mount + -ing.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.