moon – English noun declension

English noun forms of moon

Noun: moon
Singularmoon
Pluralmoons

Sample Sentences

  • The stargazer observed the moons of Jupiter for over a year.
  • That's no moon, you idiot... it's a space station!
  • Temperatures at Neptune are so low that Triton, its only major moon, revealed landscapes of nitrogen and methane ice. [1990 August, Bradford A. Smith, “Voyage of the Century”, in National Geographic, volume 178, number 2, page 63:]
  • The field’s practitioners believe that as they learn to read the universe using neutrinos, they could make new, unexpected discoveries — much as the lensmakers who first developed the telescope could not have imagined that Galileo would later use it to discover the moons of Jupiter. [2021 March 30, Anton Troianovski, “Hunting Ghost Particles Beneath the World’s Deepest Lake”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Mar 2021:]
  • They stayed with their aunt and uncle for many moons.
  • For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith,
  • Till now some nine moons wasted, they have used
  • Their dearest action in the tented field… [1603, William Shakespeare, Othello:]
  • They number their age by Moons or Winters, and say a Woman or a Man is so many Moons old, and so they do with all memorable Actions in life, accounting it to be so many Moons or Winters since such or such a thing happened. [1737, John Brickell, The natural history of North-Carolina, pages 308–309:]
  • Many moons had waxed and waned when on the afternoon of a lovely summer day a lusty broad-boned knight was riding through the forest of Sherwood. [1822, Thomas Love Peacock, Maid Marian, page 238:]
  • “From whence came the yellow metal, Busuli?” he asked. The black pointed toward the southeast. “A moon’s march away—maybe more,” he replied. [1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 128:]
  • 2002, Russell Allen, "Incantations of the Apprentice", on Symphony X, The Odyssey.
  • Through eerie reach of ancient woods / Where lumbering mists arise / I journey for nines moons of the year / To where a land of legend lies
  • The wizard costume was decorated with stars and moons.
  • The moons surrounding the city walls were built in the sixteenth century.

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s
4. Proto-Germanic *mēnô
5. Proto-West Germanic *mānō
6. Old English mōna
7. Middle English mone
8. English moon
9. From Middle English mone, from Old English mōna (“moon”), from Proto-West Germanic *mānō, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô (“moon”), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon; month”), probably from *meh₁- (“to measure”).
10. Cognates
11. Cognate with Scots muin, mune (“moon”), Yola mona, moone (“moon”), North Frisian moune, muun (“moon”), Saterland Frisian Moune (“moon”), West Frisian moanne (“moon”), Alemannic German Maan, manä, manòd, mànund, meini, moanu, Mond (“moon”), Bavarian mone (“moon”), Central Franconian Mond (“moon”), Cimbrian ma, maano, må (“moon”), Dutch maan, maen (“moon”), German Mond (“moon”), Limburgish maon, maond, moan, mond, Moën, Mǫnt, Mǫe̩nt, Mǫǫnt (“moon”), Luxembourgish Mound (“moon”), Mòcheno mu' (“moon”), Vilamovian mönd, mönt (“moon”), West Flemish moane (“moon”), Yiddish מאָנט (mont, “moon”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish måne (“moon”), Faroese and Icelandic máni (“moon”), Norn måni (“moon”), Crimean Gothic mine (“moon”), Gothic 𐌼𐌴𐌽𐌰 (mēna, “the Moon”); also Cornish and Welsh mis (“month”), Irish mí (“month”), Manx mee (“month”), Scottish Gaelic mìos (“moon; month”), Latin mēnsis (“month”), Umbrian 𐌌𐌄𐌍𐌆𐌍𐌄 (menzne, “Moon”), Greek μήνας (mínas, “month”), Albanian muaj (“month”), Latvian mēnesis (“month”), mēness (“moon”), Lithuanian mėnuo (“moon; month”), Belarusian and Russian ме́сяц (mésjac, “moon; month”), Bulgarian and Macedonian ме́сец (mésec, “moon; month”), Czech měsíc (“moon; month”), Polish miesiąc, mięsiąc, mniesiąc, niesiąc (“moon; month”), Serbo-Croatian ме̏се̄ц, мје̏се̄ц, mȅsēc, mjȅsēc (“moon; month”), Slovak mesiac (“moon; month”), Slovene mesec (“moon; month”), Ukrainian мі́сяць (mísjacʹ, “moon; month”), Armenian ամիս (amis, “month”), Avestan 𐬨𐬃𐬢𐬵 (mā̊ŋh, “month”), 𐬨𐬂𐬢𐬵𐬀 (måŋha, “moon”), Bactrian μαο (mao), μαυο (mauo, “month”), Central Kurdish and Southern Kurdish مانگ (mang, “moon; month”), Northern Kurdish meh (“month”), Ossetian мӕй (mæj, “moon; month”), Pashto مياشت (myâšt, “month”), Persian مه (mah), ماه (māh / mâh, “moon; month”), Tajik моҳ (moh, “moon; month”), Tocharian A mañ (“moon; month”), Tocharian B meñe (“moon; month”), Sanskrit मस् (mas), मास् (mās, “moon; month”). See also month, a related term within Indo-European.
12. The usage of "moon" to refer to the act reflected its use as a metaphor for the buttocks since 1743. It was popularised from American student slang in the 1960s. See: Middle English Nouns 'mone', Old English Nouns 'mōna', Dutch Nouns 'maan', German Nouns 'Mond', Irish Nouns 'mí', Latin Nouns 'mēnsis', Greek Nouns 'μήνας', Latvian Nouns 'mēnesis', Czech Nouns 'měsíc', Polish Nouns 'miesiąc', Slovak Nouns 'mesiac'.

Verbs referencing "moon"

German Nouns Mond, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns måne, Ancient Greek Nouns μήν, Ancient Greek Nouns μείς.