Mound

From mound.

Mound

1. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A township in Effingham County, Illinois.
   2. A township in McDonough County, Illinois.
   3. A township in Warren County, Indiana.
   4. A township in McPherson County, Kansas.
   5. A village in Madison Parish, Louisiana.
   6. A city in Hennepin County, Minnesota.
      • 2020 February 20, “Basic Fun! and Shaquille O'Neal Announce Tonka Collaboration”, in PR Newswire‎^[1], archived from the original on 26 December 2025:

        Tonka was created in 1946 by a gardening supply company in Mound, Minnesota called Mound Metalcraft, which later become Tonka Toys Incorporated.

   7. A township in Rock County, Minnesota.
   8. A township in Bates County, Missouri.
   9. A census-designated place in Coryell County, Texas.
   10. An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia.

From a merger of Middle High German māne (from Old High German māno, from Proto-West Germanic *mānō), and Middle High German mānōt (from Old High German mānōd, from Proto-West Germanic *mānōþ).

The two words were merged throughout Central Franconian (compare Mond (“moon; month”)). The distinction between Mound and Mount in current Luxembourgish spelling mirrors German Mond versus Monat. The plural Mounden is a neologism also based on German.

• IPA^(key): /məʊ̯nt/
• Homophone: Mount

Mound m (plural Mounden)

1. moon

From Old Frisian mōnath, from Proto-West Germanic *mānōþ. Cognates include West Frisian moanne and German Monat.

• IPA^(key): /moːu̯nd/
• Hyphenation: Mound
• Rhymes: -oːu̯nd

Mound n (plural Mounde)

1. month

• Moune
• Moundai

• Marron C. Fort (2015), “Mound”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN