The story
- Old French · derived fromsurmonter“to rise above, surmount”
- Middle English · inherited fromsurmounten
- English todaysurmount
From Middle English surmounten, from Old French surmonter (“to rise above, surmount”), from sur- (“above”) + monter (“to mount”), equivalent to sur- + mount.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.