Alemannic German

Noun

Mond m

1. moon

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• Muund (rare variant in Moselle Franconian)

Etymology

From a conflation of Old High German māno and mānōd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔːnt/

Noun

Mond m ‎(plural Mond or Monde)

1. (most dialects) moon

   Wa’ mer naachs em Bösch es, süht mer, wie **** der Mond schengk.

   When you’re in the forest at night, you see how bright the moon shines.

2. (most dialects) month

   Ich hann allt drei Mond nur der halve Luhn jekräje.

   I’ve been paid just half my salary for three months now.

German

Der Mond von der Erde aus — The Moon as seen from Earth (1)

Der Mond während einer totalen Mondfinsternis — The Moon during a total lunar eclipse (1)

Etymology

From Old High German māno, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô (whence also Dutch maan, English moon, Swedish måne, Icelandic máni). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s. See also Monat.

Further Indo-European cognates: Latin mēnsis ‎(“month”), Ancient Greek μήν ‎(mḗn, “month”), Sanskrit मास ‎(māsa, “moon”), Russian месяц ‎(mésjac, “moon; month”), Lithuanian mėnulis, Persian ماه ‎(māh, “moon, month”), Tocharian A mañ

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moːnt/

Proper noun

Mond m ‎(genitive Monds)

1. (astronomy) The Moon; Earth's only natural satellite, and also a luminary.

   Der Mond ist so massereich, dass Erde und Mond zusammen häufig als Doppelplanet bezeichnet werden.‎

   The Moon has such an enormous mass that Earth and Moon are often considered as a binary system.

Noun

Mond m ‎(genitive Monds, plural Monde)

1. (astronomy) A moon, a natural satellite that is orbiting its corresponding planet

   Ganymed ist der größte Mond des Sonnensystems. — Ganymede is the biggest moon of the Solar System.

   Merkur und Venus haben keine natürlichen Monde. — Mercury and Venus do not possess natural moons.

2. (literary, dated) A month, especially a lunar month
3. (heraldry) moon (often used to describe a crescent)

Declension

Old Declension: This old declension is not used anymore, but was up until the end of the 18th century.

Hypernyms

• Himmelskörper m

Hyponyms

• Halbmond m
• Neumond m
• Vollmond m

Synonyms

• (Earth's moon): Luna
• (any moon): Trabant m, Satellit m

Derived terms

Related terms

• Monat m
• Montag m

See also

• Satellit m
• Trabant m

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German mund, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mont/

Noun

Mond m ‎(plural Mënner)

1. mouth

Afrikaans

Noun

mond ‎(plural monde)

1. (anatomy) mouth

Breton

Verb

mond

1. Alternative spelling of mont

Dutch

mond

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔnt
• IPA^(key): /mɔnt/

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch mund, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ment-. Compare Low German Mund, West Frisian mûn, German Mund, English mouth, Danish mund. See also muide.

Noun

mond m ‎(plural monden, diminutive mondje n)

1. (anatomy) mouth

Derived terms

See also

• giecheltje
• vreetmolen
• kukident

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch *munda, from Proto-Germanic *mundō.

Noun

mond f ‎(plural monden, diminutive mondje n)

1. (obsolete) hand

Related terms

• monddood

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin mundus.

Noun

mond m ‎(plural monds)

1. world

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *mënᴈ- +‎ -d ‎(“frequentative suffix”). ^[1]

• Note: The protoform is listed as *mȣnɜ- (*monɜ-) ‎(“to say”) on Uralonet. ^[2]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmond]
• Hyphenation: mond

Verb

mond

1. (transitive) to say
2. (transitive) to tell

Conjugation

Derived terms

• mondás
• mondat
• úgymond

(With verb prefixes):

(Expressions):

• bagoly mondja verébnek, hogy nagyfejű
• csütörtököt mond

References

1. ↑ Gábor Zaicz, Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete, Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, ISBN 963 7094 01 6
2. ↑ Entry #570 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Occitan

Alternative forms

• mound (Mistralian)

Etymology

From Latin mundus.

Noun

mond m (plural monds)

1. world (Earth; the third planet from the sun with respect to distance)

Related terms

• mondial

See also

• tèrra

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) mund
• (Puter, Vallader) muond

Etymology

From Latin mundus.

Noun

mond m (plural monds)

1. (Surmiran) world