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Original entry ↗suffix
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryForming a placename or a surname derived therefrom and denoting or connoting a hill or mountain; sometimes (as in estate names) used more for euphony and connotation than for geomorphic denotation. Word formation in English using the suffix to name towns and family estates was most productive in the mid-19th through mid-20th centuries.
From French -mont, from French mont (“hill, mountain”).
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