different between mound vs kopje

English

Etymology

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-Germanic *mund? (“hand”), *munduz (“protection, patron”), from Proto-Indo-European *mh?-nt-éh? (“the beckoning one”), from *men-, *man-, *mar- (“hand”). Cognate with Old Frisian mund (“guardianship”), Old High German munt (“hand, protection”) (German Mündel (“ward”), Vormund (“a guardian”)), Old Norse mund (“hand”) (Icelandic mund), Middle Dutch mond (“protection”), Latin manus (“hand”), Ancient Greek ???? (már?, “hand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?nd/
• Rhymes: -a?nd

Noun

mound (plural mounds)

1. An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense

   Synonyms: bulwark, rampart

2. A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
3. (baseball) Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.

4. A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross.
5. (US, vulgar, slang) The mons veneris.
6. (obsolete, anatomy, measurement, figuratively) A hand.
7. (obsolete) A protection; restraint; curb.
8. (obsolete) A helmet.
9. (obsolete) Might; size.

Synonyms

• (part of regalia): globus cruciger, globe, orb

Derived terms

• shaftmound

Translations

Verb

mound (third-person singular simple present mounds, present participle mounding, simple past and past participle mounded)

1. (transitive) To fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to.
2. (transitive) To force or pile into a mound or mounds.

Synonyms

• (fortify with a mound): bank, bank up, bulwark, rampart
• (pile into mounds): heap up, pile; see also Thesaurus:pile up

Derived terms

• amound

Translations

See also

• mound on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mound in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Mudon, Mundo

Middle English

Noun

mound

1. Alternative form of mund

English

Alternative forms

• koppie

Etymology

From (South African) Dutch kopje, diminutive of kop (“head”).

Noun

kopje (plural kopjes)

1. (South Africa) A small hill or mound (especially on the African veld).
   • 1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther 1974, p. 8:

     Martha looked over a mile or so of bush to a strip of pink ploughed land; […] and then, ridge after ridge, fold after fold, the bush stretched to a line of blue kopjes.

   • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 72:

     On the koppie behind the village, the unsightly red-and-white skeleton of an FM tower.

References

• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition (1997)

Afrikaans

Noun

kopje (plural kopjes)

1. (archaic) Alternative form of koppie

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?p.j?/

Noun

kopje n (plural kopjes)

1. Diminutive of kop

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• ko?e (obsolete)

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kop?je. Cognate with Upper Sorbian kopjo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?p??/, [?k?p??]

Noun

kopje n (diminutive kopjecko)

1. spear, javelin, lance, pike

Inflection

Further reading

• ko?e in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• kopje in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kop?je.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kò?pj?/

Noun

k??pje n

1. javelin

Inflection

Further reading

• “kopje”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran