mound
要点盛り土、小さい丘
意味
- 盛り土,塚;土手,古墳
- (自然の)小さい丘,小山
- (一般に)盛り上げたもの,堆積
- (野球の投手の)マウンド
例文
The Takamatsuzuka burial mound is located in Asukamura, Nara prefecture.
高松塚古墳は、奈良県明日香村に存在する古墳。
It is a two level style round burial mound, 23m diameter (lower level), 18m (higher).
直径23m(下段)及び18m(上段)、高さ5ｍの二段式の円墳である。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From earlier meaning "hedge, fence", from Middle English mound, mund (“protection, boundary, raised earthen rampart”), from Old English mund (“hand, hand of protection, protector, guardianship”), from Proto-West Germanic *mundu, from Proto-Germanic *mundō (“hand”), *munduz (“protection, patron”), from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂-nt-éh₂ (“the beckoning one”), from *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon”). Cognate with Old Frisian mund (“guardianship”), Middle Dutch mond (“protection”), Old High German munt (“hand, protection”) German Mündel (“ward”), Vormund (“guardian”)), Icelandic and Old Norse mund (“hand”), and possibly Latin manus (“hand”), Ancient Greek μάρη (márē, “hand”). Not related to mount.