mount
v.
c.1300, "to mount a horse;" mid-14c., "to rise up, ascend; fly," from Old French monter "to go up, ascend, climb, mount," from Vulgar Latin *montare, from Latin mons (genitive montis) "mountain" (see mount, n.). Meaning "to set or place in position" first recorded 1530s. Sense of "to get up on for purposes of copulation" is from 1590s. Related: Mounted; mounting.
n.
1
"hill, mountain," mid-13c., from Anglo-French mount, Old French mont "mountain;" also perhaps partly from Old English munt "mountain;" both the Old English and the French words from Latin montem (nominative mons) "mountain," from PIE root *men- "to stand out, project" (cognates: Latin eminere "to stand out;" Sanskrit manya "nape of the neck," Latin monile "necklace;" Old Irish muin "neck," Welsh mwnwgl "neck," mwng "mane;" Welsh mynydd "mountain").
2
"that on which something is mounted," 1739, from mount, v.. The colloquial meaning "a horse for riding" is first recorded 1856.
词根：mount = ascend, 表示“登上”
mount n. 山丘 v. 登上
mounted a. 骑马的（mount+ed)
mountain n. 山（mount+ain)
mountainous a. 多山的；巨大的（mountain山+ous)
dismount v. 下车，下马（dis下+mount登上→从马上下来）
surmount v. 克服（困难等）(sur超过+mount→登上[山顶]，超越困难）
insurmountable a. 难克服的（in不+surmount克服+able→不能克服的）
remount v. 重新登上（re再+mount→再次登上）
paramount a. 最高的，首要的（para类似+mount→类似高山→最高的）
mountebank n. 江湖骗子（mounte+bank(即bench)→登上长椅[卖假药]→江湖骗子）
tantamount a. 同等的，相等的（tant相等+a+mount数量）
〔李〕[mount] v.登（山）； 骑（马）； 乘 ←mont,mount (L mons,montis)=mountain 山