The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*men-“to stand out”
- Medieval Latin · borrowed fromprōmontōrium
- English todaypromontory
From Medieval Latin prōmontōrium, from prōmineō, from prō- + *mineō (“to project or jut”, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stand out”)) + -tōrium (“place”).
Words from the same roots
Proto-Indo-European*men- all →
gamemanminremainmintparamountmingmantramnemonicminnowminionmignonmontanemonadMintomonePrometheanminchMontagnardmessuagemelomaniacminchenpromnesia
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.