Mohn
English
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editMohn (plural Mohns)
- A surname from German.
Statistics
edit- According to the 2010 United States Census, Mohn is the 10298th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 3129 individuals. Mohn is most common among White (92.75%) individuals.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Mohn”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 605.
German
editEtymology
editWith 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
editNoun
editMohn m (strong, genitive Mohnes or Mohns, plural Mohne)
Usage notes
editThis 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
editDerived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Estonian: moon
Further reading
edit- English terms borrowed from German
- English terms derived from German
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English surnames
- English surnames from German
- German terms inherited from Middle High German
- German terms derived from Middle High German
- German terms inherited from Old High German
- German terms derived from Old High German
- German terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- German terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- German 1-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German terms with audio links
- Rhymes:German/oːn
- Rhymes:German/oːn/1 syllable
- German lemmas
- German nouns
- German masculine nouns
- German collective nouns
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