The support structure for a telescope that bears the weight of the
telescope and allows it to be pointed at a target.
Etymology (EN): From verb mount, from O.Fr. monter “to go up, climb, mount,”
from V.L. *montare, from L. mons (genitive montis)
→ mountain
Etymology (PE): Barnešând, noun of Barnešândan “to set, to fix, make sit,”
from bar- “on, upon, up” (Mid.Pers. abar; O.Pers.
upariy “above; over, upon, according to;” Av. upairi “above, over,”
upairi.zəma- “located above the earth;” cf. Gk. hyper- “over, above;”
L. super-; O.H.G. ubir “over;” PIE base *uper “over”) +
nešândan “to place one thing upon another, to fix, insert,” from
nešastan “to sit;”
Mid.Pers. nišastan “to sit;” O.Pers. nišādayam
[1 sg.impf.caus.act.] “to sit down, to establish,” hadiš- “abode;”
Av. nišasiiā [1 sg.subj.acr.] “I shall sit down,”
from nihad- “to sit down,” from
ni- “down, below, into,” → ni-,
- had- “to sit;” PIE base *sed- “to sit;”
cf. Skt. sad- “to sit,” sidati “sits;”
Gk. hezomai “to sit,” hedra “seat, chair;”
L. sedere “to sit;”
O.Ir. suide “seat, sitting;” Welsh sedd “seat;”
Lith. sedmi “to sit;” Rus. sad “garden;” Goth. sitan,
Ger. sitzen; E. sit.
