mountain

• n. 山；山脈
• n.（山の）人名；（英）Munting.

mount（山）と-ain（小単語の接尾辞）から。文字通り丘のことで、18世紀までは非常に低い高さの丘を指す言葉として使われていた。エベレスト山と比較される。

mountain

mountain: [13] Latin mōns ‘mountain’ could well go back ultimately to a variant of the base *min- ‘jut’ which produced English eminent, imminent, menace, and prominent. English acquired it originally direct from Latin as a noun, mount [OE], which is now used only in the names of mountains. The verb mount followed in the 14th century, via Old French munter.

Latin mōns had a derived adjective montānus ‘mountainous’, which was adapted in Vulgar Latin to the noun *montānea ‘mountainous area’. This made its way into Old French as montaigne, by which time it meant simply ‘mountain’ – whence English mountain. Amount [13] comes ultimately from the Latin phrase ad montem ‘to the mountain’, hence ‘upwards’; and paramount [16] in turn derives from an Old French phrase par amont ‘by above’, hence ‘superior’.
=> amount, eminent, imminent, menace, mount, paramount, prominent, tantamount

mountain (n.)

c. 1200, from Old French montaigne (Modern French montagne), from Vulgar Latin *montanea "mountain, mountain region," noun use of fem. of *montaneus "of a mountain, mountainous," from Latin montanus "mountainous, of mountains," from mons (genitive montis) "mountain" (see mount (n.)).

Until 18c., applied to a fairly low elevation if it was prominent (such as Sussex Downs, the hills around Paris). As an adjective from late 14c. Mountain dew "raw and inferior whiskey" first recorded 1839; earlier a type of Scotch whiskey (1816); Jamieson's 1825 "Supplement" to his Scottish dictionary defines it specifically as "A cant term for Highland whisky that has paid no duty." Mountain-climber recorded from 1839; mountain-climbing from 1836.

1. I 'll run over to Short Mountain and check on Mrs Adams.

私は運転してショット山に行ってアダムス夫人を見に行きます。

2.The truck sways wildly,careening down narrow mountain roads.

トラックは狂ったように右に揺れ、狭い山道を急降下した。

3.Searchers have found three mountain climbers missing sing since Saturday.

捜索員は土曜日に行方不明になった3人の登山者を見つけた。

4.We climbed up a winding track towards a mountain refuge.

私たちは蛇行する小道に沿って山の避難所に登った。

5.Typically，the Norwegians were on the mountain two hours before anyone else.

いつものように、ノルウェー人は他のすべての人よりも2時間前に山に入った。