menhir

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmɛnhɪə/
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• General-American: /ˈmɛnˌ(h)ɪ(ə)ɹ/
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PIE word *méǵh2s Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *méǵh2sder.? Proto-Celtic *maginos Proto-Brythonic *maɣɨnder. Breton maen Proto-Indo-European *seh1- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Indo-European *seh1-ró-s Proto-Celtic *sīros Proto-Brythonic *hirder. Breton hir Breton maen-hirbor. French menhirbor. English menhir Either borrowed from French menhir, or from its etymon Breton maen-hir, compound of maen (“stone”) + hir (“long”). Compare with Welsh maen hir, and Cornish men hir.

75 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: menhir — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Arabic: شاهد قائم — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Aragonese: menhir — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Armenian: մենհիր (menhir) — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Asturian: menhir — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Basque: menhir — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Basque: iruinarri — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Basque: zutarri — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Belarusian: менгір (mjenhir) — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Breton: peulvan — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Bulgarian: менхир (menhir) — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Catalan: menhir — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Chinese Mandarin: 立石 (lìshí) — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Czech: menhir — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Danish: bautasten — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Dutch: menhir — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Esperanto: menhiro — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Estonian: menhir — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Faroese: beytasteinur — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Finnish: menhir — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Finnish: megaliitti — single tall standing stone as a monument
• French: menhir — single tall standing stone as a monument
• West-Frisian: menhir — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Galician: menhir — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Galician: lapa — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Galician: pedrafita — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Georgian: მენჰირი (menhiri) — single tall standing stone as a monument
• German: Menhir — single tall standing stone as a monument
• German: Druidenstein — single tall standing stone as a monument
• German: Hinkelstein — single tall standing stone as a monument
• German: Hünenstein — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Greek: μενίρ (menír) — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Hebrew: מנהיר — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Hungarian: menhír — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Hungarian: kőszál — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Ido: menhiro — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Indonesian: menhir — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Irish: gallán — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Italian: menhir — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Japanese: メンヒル (menhiru) — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Kazakh: менгир (meñir) — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Kazakh: қадатас (qadatas) — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Korean: 선돌 (seondol) — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Lithuanian: menhyras — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Macedonian: менхир (menhir) — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Malay: menhir — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Malayalam: മെൻഹിർ (meṉhiṟ) — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Marathi: वीरगळ (vīrgaḷ) — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Norwegian Nynorsk: bautastein — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Norwegian Nynorsk: menhir — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Occitan: menir — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Persian: سنگافراشت — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Polish: menhir — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Portuguese: menir — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Quechua: sayakuq rumi — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Romanian: menhir — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Russian: менги́р (mengír) — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Scottish Gaelic: tursa — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Serbo-Croatian: мѐнхӣр — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Serbo-Croatian: mènhīr — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Slovak: menhir — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Slovene: menhir — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Spanish: menhir — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Swedish: bautasten — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Swedish: rest sten — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Tagalog: nakatayong bato — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Tamil: குத்துக்கல் (kuttukkal) — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Tatar: менгир (mengir) — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Tatar: озынташ (ozıntaş) — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Tatar: тораташ (torataş) — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Turkish: menhir — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Ukrainian: менгі́р (menhír) — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Uzbek: mengir — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Walloon: menir — single tall standing stone as a monument
• Welsh: maen hir — single tall standing stone as a monument