Montagnard
/ˌmɑn.tənˈjɑɹd/ noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A member of La Montagne (The Mountain), a French political group active 1792-1799 during the French Revolution of 1789. historical
- 2 A member of La Montagne (The Mountain), Democratic Socialists active 1849-1852 in the French Second Republic after the French Revolution of 1848. historical
- 3 A member of the indigenous peoples of the Central Highlands of Vietnam. demonym
- 4 A member of the Khmer Loeu, highland tribes in Cambodia. demonym, historical
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Via French montagnard (“mountaineer, mountain-dweller”), from Middle French montaigne from Old French montaigne from Early Medieval Latin montānia (“mountain”), a collective based on Latin mont- (“mountain”), from Proto-Italic *monts, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stand out, to tower”). The French group was so called because they sat on the topmost benches.