Mohn
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From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From the German surname:
Mohn (plural Mohns)
With widespread dialectal -ā- → -ō- (as also in ohne and wo) from obsolete Mahn, from Middle High German māhe, māhen (Central German also already mān), from Old High German māho, from Proto-West Germanic *māhō, from Proto-Germanic *mēhô. Compare the variant Old High German mago.
Cognate with Danish valmue, Swedish vallmo, Ancient Greek μήκων (mḗkōn) (Doric μάκων (mákōn)) and Old Church Slavonic макъ (makŭ) (Bulgarian мак (mak), Russian мак (mak), Serbo-Croatian мак, Czech mák).
Mohn m (strong, genitive Mohnes or Mohns, plural Mohne)
This noun is mostly used in the singular and as the first element of a compound. To talk about more than one poppy, the derived forms Mohnblumen (“poppy flowers”) and Mohnpflanzen (“poppy plants”) are more common. Because this word is also a collective, the singular refers to poppy seeds as a mass noun.
1Now rare, see notes.
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