Etymology

sermountain

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Middle English sermontayne ← Old French sermontain
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromsermontain
  2. Middle English · inherited fromsermontayne
  3. English todaysermountain

From Middle English sermontayne, from Old French sermontain. The modern English form has been remodelled after mountain.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.