menhir
Meaning
Noun
- A single tall standing stone as a monument, especially one dating to prehistoric times.
Origin
- Either borrowed from French menhir, or from its etymon Breton maen-hir, from maen (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s) + hir (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-). The English word is cognate with Cornish mênhere, Welsh maen hir.
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