Moon
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Etymology 1[edit]




From Middle English Mone, mone, from Old English mōna, from Proto-West Germanic *mānō, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), from *meh₁- (“to measure”).
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Moon
- The Earth's moon; the sole natural satellite of the Earth, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☾.
- (paganism) A personification of the moon.
- 1994, Tony Linsell, Anglo-Saxon Mythology, Migration & Magic, Anglo-Saxon Books, →ISBN, page 15:
- Moon, the companion of Night, waxes and wanes, and we call this time a month.
- 2005, Falcon Stow, An Anglo-Saxon Almanac, privately published, page 13:
- Moon's Day.
- 2005, Diana Paxson, Taking up the Runes, Weiser Books, →ISBN, page 328:
- Sun come, Moon come, Seed time, dry time, fog and rain, Sowing, growing, reaping, resting, Sun come, Moon come, etc.
- The 54th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
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sole natural satellite of the Earth
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54th sura of the Qur'an
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See also[edit]
Solar System in English · Solar System (layout · text) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Star | Sun | |||||||||||||||||
IAU planets and notable dwarf planets |
Mercury | Venus | Earth | Mars | Ceres | Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune | Pluto | Eris | |||||||
Notable moons |
— | — | Moon | Phobos Deimos |
— | Io Europa Ganymede Callisto |
Mimas Enceladus Tethys Dione Rhea Titan Iapetus |
Miranda Ariel Umbriel Titania Oberon |
Triton | Charon | Dysnomia |
Etymology 2[edit]
- A variant of Mohan, from Irish.
- A habitational name of Norman origin from Moyon in La Manche. Compare Mounce.
- Americanized form of German Mohn or a similar surname.
- A variant of Mun, from Korean.
- A variant Romanization of Chinese 文 (Wén), 萬/万 (Wàn), and 滿/满 (Mǎn).
- Possibly from Cantonese 滿/满 (mun5, “full; complete”).[1]
Proper noun[edit]
Moon
- A surname.
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Kentucky.
- A township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
- A ghost town in Pennington County, South Dakota.
- An unincorporated community in Mathews County, Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
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References[edit]
- ^ Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Moon”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 615.
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