Moon

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See also: moon, mo-on, mòòn, and Möön

English

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Etymology 1

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The Earth's moon.
The Moon's astronomical/astrological symbol (often reversed to )
The Moon (waning crescent)
The Moon (full)

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).

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Proper noun

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Moon or the Moon

  1. The Earth's moon; the sole natural satellite of the Earth, represented in astronomy and astrology by .
  2. (paganism) A personification of the moon.
    • 1994, Tony Linsell, Anglo-Saxon Mythology, Migration & Magic, Anglo-Saxon Books, →ISBN, page 15:
      Moon, the companion of Night, waxes and wanes, and we call this time a month.
    • 2005, Falcon Stow, An Anglo-Saxon Almanac, privately published, page 13:
      Moon's Day.
    • 2005, Diana Paxson, Taking up the Runes, Weiser Books, →ISBN, page 328:
      Sun come, Moon come, Seed time, dry time, fog and rain, Sowing, growing, reaping, resting, Sun come, Moon come, etc.
  3. The 54th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
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Translations
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See also
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Solar System in English · Solar System (layout · text)
Star Sun
IAU planets and
notable dwarf planets
Mercury Venus Earth Mars Ceres Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto Eris
Notable
moons
Moon Phobos
Deimos
Io
Europa
Ganymede
Callisto
Mimas
Enceladus
Tethys
Dione
Rhea
Titan
Iapetus

Miranda
Ariel
Umbriel
Titania
Oberon
Triton Charon Dysnomia

Etymology 2

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Proper noun

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Moon

  1. A surname.
  2. A number of places in the United States:
    1. An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Kentucky.
    2. A township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
    3. A ghost town in Pennington County, South Dakota.
    4. An unincorporated community in Mathews County, Virginia.
    5. An unincorporated community in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
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Statistics
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  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Moon is the 758th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 45,528 individuals. Moon is most common among White (65.7%) and Black/African American (10.0%) individuals. [1]

References

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  1. ^ Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Moon”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 615.

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