Moon
A surname.
Proper noun
- A surname.
- A number of places in the United States:
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An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Kentucky.
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A township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
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A ghost town in Pennington County, South Dakota.
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An unincorporated community in Mathews County, Virginia.
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An unincorporated community in the town of Mosinee, Marathon County, Wisconsin.
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Origin
* A variant of Mohan, from Irish. * A habitational name of Norman origin from Moyon in La Manche. Compare Mounce. * An 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”).
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Proper noun Entry 2
- The Earth's moon; the sole natural satellite of the Earth, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☾.
- I kind of have two Moons up there. I look at the Moon just like everybody else who's never been there. But every once in a while I do think of the second Moon, the one that I recall from up close and, yeah, it is kind...
- A personification of the moon.
- Women's rhythm of life, her monthly renewal with her patroness the Moon, is the most important thing in her existence. - 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 145:
- Moon, the companion of Night, waxes and wanes, and we call this time a month. - 1994, Tony Linsell, Anglo-Saxon Mythology, Migration & Magic, Anglo-Saxon Books, →ISBN, page 15:
- Moon's Day. - 2005, Falcon Stow, An Anglo-Saxon Almanac, privately published, page 13:
- The 54th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
Origin
[Alt: Refer to caption] 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”). Doublet of Máni.