Mohn

Mohn

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Mohn.

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.

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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-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/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -oːn

Noun

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

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

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 uncommon, 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