See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. See also:

• MONTAIGNE, MICHEL DE (1533-1592)

montaigne; popular See also:

• LAT

Lat. montanea, an adjectival See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form from the classical See also:

• MONS (Flemish Bergen)

mons, montis, whence Eng. " See also:

• MOUNT, WILLIAM SIDNEY (1807-1868)

mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt See also:

• EVEREST, MOUNT
• EVEREST, SIR GEORGE (1790—1866)

Everest)  , a natural See also:

• ELEVATION

elevation of the See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

earth's See also:

• SURFACE

surface . The See also:

• TERM

term properly connotes height See also:

• SUPERIOR

superior to that of a See also:

• HILL
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

hill (0 . Eng. hyll, cognate with See also:

• LAT

Lat. coils); but the distinction depends on the prominence of a given elevation in relation to its surroundings, and in some degree to the bold or See also:

• GENTLE (through the Fr. gentil, from Lat. gentilis, belonging to the same gens, or family)

gentle See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character of its outline . For the See also:

• CLASSIFICATION (Lat. classis, a class, probably from the root cal-, cla-, as in Gr. icaMce, clamor)

classification of mountains according to the various processes of their formation, see See also:

• GEOGRAPHY (Gr. yil, earth, and ypiickty, to write)

GEOGRAPHY, § Principles of Geography; and for further details See also:

• GEOLOGY (from Gr. yp7, the earth, and Abyor, science)

GEOLOGY, § viii .