mount

«mount» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: mountain; get on (a horse) — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic sense

modern equivalent

mountain; get on (a horse)

part of speech

verb and noun (old sense: mountain)

meaning for a pupil

In the Torah, "mount" means a mountain; in the fairy tale it means to climb on, as on a horse or pony. tree →

how it differs from today

Today "mount" as a noun is rare except in names, and the Torah sense "mountain" is old; the fairy-tale sense (to get on) is still in use.

examples

• And the LORD spoke unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying: (Torah LEV.25.1, JPS 1917) tree →
• Mount quickly and let us go. (The Adventures of Pinocchio) tree →
• And they journeyed from Kehelah, and pitched in mount Shepher. (Torah NUM.33.23, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

mount

tests

rate: sense (≥3 uses in the Torah, ≥10× EWT there, Wiktionary: an archaic sense); corpora 278 (Torah 95, tales 183, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 4; ratio 3.5 (Torah alone 24.6); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

In the corpora

• and the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the wilderness.
• And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their garments.
• And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
• And Moses rose up, and Joshua his minister; and Moses went up into the mount of God.
• And Moses went up into the mount, and the cloud covered the mount.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «mount» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.