Mountains of the Moonn.

Brit.

/ˌmaʊntᵻnz əv ðə ˈmuːn/, U.S.

/ˌmaʊnt(ə)nz əv ðə ˈmun/

Forms: 1500s Mountains of the Moone, 1600s Mountaines of the Moone, 1600s– Mountains of the Moon. Also with lower-case initials.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Greek lexical item. Etymons: mountain n., of prep., the adj., moon n.¹

Etymology: < the plural of mountain n. + of prep. + the adj. + moon n.¹, after Hellenistic Greek τὸ τῆς σελήνης ὄρος (c a.d. 150 in Ptolemy Geography 4. 9. 3: on singular form see etymological note). Compare Italian li monti della luna (1591 in the source translated in quot. 1597 at sense 1), Dutch berghen vander Mane (1596 in a translation of this source).Ptolemy believed that the river Nile issued from two lakes which were fed by the melting of snows on this range of mountains, which was said by him to run from east to west for over 500 miles. Some 19th-cent. explorers connected the name with Swahili Unyamwezi , lit. ‘country of the moon’, a region of west-central Tanzania inhabited by the Wanyamwezi (compare Wanyamwezi n. and adj.), but this is some distance away and is unlikely to be historically connected. Compare also Arabic Jabal al-Qamar (3rd cent. in the treatise of al-Ḵ^wārazmī, changed by later authors to Jabal al-Qumr ). It is possible that the Greek designation reflects an earlier confusion among different vocalizations of the Arabic root, which can have the meanings ‘moon’ or ‘moon-white, bright, whitish’: Aristotle ( De Inundatione Nili) says the Nile arises ex Argenti monte ‘from the Silver mountain’. It is not clear how the Arabic, Greek, and Latin names, which are all singular, came to be used in the plural in Italian, Dutch, and English. In recent times the Mountains of the Moon have been popularly identified with the Ruwenzori mountains in Uganda, south-west of Lake Albert, which is on the course of the Victoria Nile. Some uses in sense 2 appear to allude to sense 1, but others may allude to the literal sense of the phrase (i.e. lunar mountains).

1. A mountain range in central Africa, now identified with the Mount Ruwenzori mountain group between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.In early use, the mythical or suppositional source of the Nile.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [noun] > range > other spec.

Mountains of the Moon1597

Carnic Alps1601

the Ghats1603

Pyreneans1768

Rocky Mountains1798

Balkans1802

Carnian Alps1802

Rockies1827

Carpathiana1832

Appalachians1834

Adirondack1838

keel1857

1597 tr. D. Lopes (title) A Report of the kingdome of Congo, a region of Africa, and..That the River Nilus springeth not out of the mountains of the Moone, as hath been heretofore beleeued: together with the true cause of the rising and increasing thereof.

1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. ix. 142 Nilus in Africke is thought to haue his first head in the mountaines of the Moone.

1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada ii. iv. 131 Far hence, upon the Mountains of the Moon Is my abode, where Heav'n and Nature smile; And strew with Flowers the secret bed of Nyle.

1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. Observ. 268 It is now generally agreed, that these prodigious inundations proceed from..the melting of the snows on the mountains of the Moon in Æthiopia.

1804 W. L. Bowles Spiritual Discov. i. 15 Africa..her long domain Reveals, the mountains of the Moon, the source Of Nile, [etc.].

1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 13 The heavens are not yet drained over their sources, but the Mountains of the Moon still send their annual tribute to the Pasha without fail, as they did to the Pharaohs.

1891 in T. H. Parke My Personal Experiences Equatorial Afr. xi. 220 [Diary] I reported to Stanley that I had seen a snow-clad mountain. He was a good deal interested. [Editorial note] He saw this mountain-range afterwards, and at once named it the ‘Mountains of the Moon’.

1944 F. Clune Red Heart 3 This book [on Ceuhalia]..will tell..of the Mountains of the Moon.

1991 S. Stanley Old Serpent Nile (BNC) 7 I had not known Melinda when I first entertained the idea of travelling the length of the Nile. But now, going to the Mountains of the Moon without her would have been heart-breaking.

2. The type of a very remote place; further than one can imagine, the ends of the earth.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun] > remote or outlying area

nookc1480

out-country1639

outland1645

remoteness1694

backwoods1709

back county1775

remote1838

Mountains of the Moon1852

nowhere1871

the sticks1899

way back1901

downstate1905

back o' Bourke1918

far-back1926

woop woop1926

boohai?1946

bundu1946

Dogpatch1946

outback1954

toolies1961

upstate1965

Watford1973

1852 Amer. Whig Rev. July 34/1 Ambition might rest content on other gratifications than the yearly receipt of tribute from the Frigid Zone, and appointment of a viceroy to the Mountains of the Moon.

1893 A. Bierce Can Such Things Be? 19 Not another soul knows that he is this side of the Mountains of the Moon.

1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea xviii. 197 ‘Anne,’ said Davy.., ‘Anne, where is sleep?’... She turned her head at Davy's question and answered dreamily, ‘Over the mountains of the moon, Down in the valley of the shadow.’

1991 A. Grossman Ether Dome 41 The ballad songs Of her girlhood in Kansas, or on the Mountains of the Moon.

1998 Chicago Rev. 44 No. 1. 19 Without you I'd never hope to see the Beatific Vision in the world beyond the Mountains of the Moon.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mountains of the moon
释义	Mountains of the Moonn. Brit. /ˌmaʊntᵻnz əv ðə ˈmuːn/, U.S. /ˌmaʊnt(ə)nz əv ðə ˈmun/ Forms: 1500s Mountains of the Moone, 1600s Mountaines of the Moone, 1600s– Mountains of the Moon. Also with lower-case initials. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Greek lexical item. Etymons: mountain n., of prep., the adj., moon n.¹ Etymology: < the plural of mountain n. + of prep. + the adj. + moon n.¹, after Hellenistic Greek τὸ τῆς σελήνης ὄρος (c a.d. 150 in Ptolemy Geography 4. 9. 3: on singular form see etymological note). Compare Italian li monti della luna (1591 in the source translated in quot. 1597 at sense 1), Dutch berghen vander Mane (1596 in a translation of this source).Ptolemy believed that the river Nile issued from two lakes which were fed by the melting of snows on this range of mountains, which was said by him to run from east to west for over 500 miles. Some 19th-cent. explorers connected the name with Swahili Unyamwezi , lit. ‘country of the moon’, a region of west-central Tanzania inhabited by the Wanyamwezi (compare Wanyamwezi n. and adj.), but this is some distance away and is unlikely to be historically connected. Compare also Arabic Jabal al-Qamar (3rd cent. in the treatise of al-Ḵ^wārazmī, changed by later authors to Jabal al-Qumr ). It is possible that the Greek designation reflects an earlier confusion among different vocalizations of the Arabic root, which can have the meanings ‘moon’ or ‘moon-white, bright, whitish’: Aristotle ( De Inundatione Nili) says the Nile arises ex Argenti monte ‘from the Silver mountain’. It is not clear how the Arabic, Greek, and Latin names, which are all singular, came to be used in the plural in Italian, Dutch, and English. In recent times the Mountains of the Moon have been popularly identified with the Ruwenzori mountains in Uganda, south-west of Lake Albert, which is on the course of the Victoria Nile. Some uses in sense 2 appear to allude to sense 1, but others may allude to the literal sense of the phrase (i.e. lunar mountains). 1. A mountain range in central Africa, now identified with the Mount Ruwenzori mountain group between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.In early use, the mythical or suppositional source of the Nile. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [noun] > range > other spec. Mountains of the Moon1597 Carnic Alps1601 the Ghats1603 Pyreneans1768 Rocky Mountains1798 Balkans1802 Carnian Alps1802 Rockies1827 Carpathiana1832 Appalachians1834 Adirondack1838 keel1857 1597 tr. D. Lopes (title) A Report of the kingdome of Congo, a region of Africa, and..That the River Nilus springeth not out of the mountains of the Moone, as hath been heretofore beleeued: together with the true cause of the rising and increasing thereof. 1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. ix. 142 Nilus in Africke is thought to haue his first head in the mountaines of the Moone. 1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada ii. iv. 131 Far hence, upon the Mountains of the Moon Is my abode, where Heav'n and Nature smile; And strew with Flowers the secret bed of Nyle. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. Observ. 268 It is now generally agreed, that these prodigious inundations proceed from..the melting of the snows on the mountains of the Moon in Æthiopia. 1804 W. L. Bowles Spiritual Discov. i. 15 Africa..her long domain Reveals, the mountains of the Moon, the source Of Nile, [etc.]. 1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 13 The heavens are not yet drained over their sources, but the Mountains of the Moon still send their annual tribute to the Pasha without fail, as they did to the Pharaohs. 1891 in T. H. Parke My Personal Experiences Equatorial Afr. xi. 220 [Diary] I reported to Stanley that I had seen a snow-clad mountain. He was a good deal interested. [Editorial note] He saw this mountain-range afterwards, and at once named it the ‘Mountains of the Moon’. 1944 F. Clune Red Heart 3 This book [on Ceuhalia]..will tell..of the Mountains of the Moon. 1991 S. Stanley Old Serpent Nile (BNC) 7 I had not known Melinda when I first entertained the idea of travelling the length of the Nile. But now, going to the Mountains of the Moon without her would have been heart-breaking. 2. The type of a very remote place; further than one can imagine, the ends of the earth. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun] > remote or outlying area nookc1480 out-country1639 outland1645 remoteness1694 backwoods1709 back county1775 remote1838 Mountains of the Moon1852 nowhere1871 the sticks1899 way back1901 downstate1905 back o' Bourke1918 far-back1926 woop woop1926 boohai?1946 bundu1946 Dogpatch1946 outback1954 toolies1961 upstate1965 Watford1973 1852 Amer. Whig Rev. July 34/1 Ambition might rest content on other gratifications than the yearly receipt of tribute from the Frigid Zone, and appointment of a viceroy to the Mountains of the Moon. 1893 A. Bierce Can Such Things Be? 19 Not another soul knows that he is this side of the Mountains of the Moon. 1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea xviii. 197 ‘Anne,’ said Davy.., ‘Anne, where is sleep?’... She turned her head at Davy's question and answered dreamily, ‘Over the mountains of the moon, Down in the valley of the shadow.’ 1991 A. Grossman Ether Dome 41 The ballad songs Of her girlhood in Kansas, or on the Mountains of the Moon. 1998 Chicago Rev. 44 No. 1. 19 Without you I'd never hope to see the Beatific Vision in the world beyond the Mountains of the Moon. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1597
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