Mohn
English edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Mohn (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 edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Noun edit
Mohn m (strong, genitive Mohnes or Mohns, plural Mohne)
Usage notes edit
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 edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Estonian: moon