Mohn

English

Etymology

From the German surname:

• from the noun Mohn (“poppy”),
• also from the old personal name Monrad, composed of the elements *mundiz (“thought, mind, spirit”) and *rēdaz (“counsel”),
• also a variant of Moehn, from Möhn near Trier.

Proper noun

Mohn (plural Mohns)

1. A surname from German.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Mohn is the 10298^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3129 individuals. Mohn is most common among White (92.75%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Mohn”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 605.

German

Etymology

With widespread dialectal -ā- → -ō- (as also in ohne and wo) from obsolete Mahn, from Middle High German māhe, māhen (Central German also already mān), from Old High German māho, from Proto-West Germanic *māhō, from Proto-Germanic *mēhô. Compare the variant Old High German mago.

Cognate with Danish valmue, Swedish vallmo, Ancient Greek μήκων (mḗkōn) (Doric μάκων (mákōn)) and Old Church Slavonic макъ (makŭ) (Bulgarian мак (mak), Russian мак (mak), Serbo-Croatian мак, Czech mák).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /moːn/

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• Rhymes: -oːn

Noun

Mohn m (strong, genitive Mohnes or Mohns, plural Mohne)

1. poppy (Papaver)
2. (collective) poppyseeds

Usage notes

This noun is mostly used in the singular and as the first element of a compound. To talk about more than one poppy, the derived forms Mohnblumen (“poppy flowers”) and Mohnpflanzen (“poppy plants”) are more common. Because this word is also a collective, the singular refers to poppy seeds as a mass noun.

Declension

Declension of Mohn [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Mohn	die	Mohne
genitive	eines	des	Mohnes, Mohns	der	Mohne
dative	einem	dem	Mohn, Mohne1	den	Mohnen
accusative	einen	den	Mohn	die	Mohne

¹Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

• Feldmohn
• Klatschmohn
• mohnartig
• Mohnblume
• Mohnblüte
• Mohnbrötchen
• mohnfarben
• Mohnfeld
• Mohnhörnchen
• Mohnkapsel
• Mohnkipferl
• Mohnklöße
• Mohnkorn
• Mohnkuchen
• mohnrot
• Mohnsamen
• Mohnstollen
• Mohnstrietzel
• Mohnstriezel
• Mohnstrudel
• Mohnzopf
• Schlafmohn

 

Descendants

• → Estonian: moon

Further reading

• “Mohn” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Mohn” in Duden online