Word Origin Summary

Montaigne is attested in Middle French. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. montaniaVulgar Latininherited from
2. *men-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from
3. montānusLatininherited from
4. montaniaLatininherited from
5. montaigneFrenchinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• montagne

  French · inherited from

• Montagnard

  French · inherited from

• montany

  Seychellois Creole · derived from

• montany

  Antillean Creole · derived from

• Montagnard

  English · derived from

• montany

  Mauritian Creole · derived from

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