Other forms: mountaineers
A mountaineer is somebody who climbs mountains. An experienced mountaineer.
The word covers technical climbing and long walking at altitude, which are different skills. A mountaineer dies far more often on the descent than on the way up.
1nounmountaineerSomebody who climbs mountains.
“The mountaineer had been on four expeditions and summited on one.”
mountaineer is a person.
Proto-Indo-European
*men-
Proto-Indo-European
*monti
Latin
mōns — mountain
la-eme
montānia
Anglo-Norman
montaigne
Middle English
mountayne
English
mountain
English, today
mountaineer
Built from
From mountain + -eer. mountain comes from Middle English mountayne, mountain, montaigne, from Anglo-Norman montaigne, montaigne, from la-eme montānia, a collective based on Latin mōns (“mountain”), from Proto-Indo-European monti (compare Welsh mynydd (“mountain”), Albanian mat (“bank, shore”), ae 𐬨𐬀𐬙𐬌 (“promontory”)), from men- (“to project, stick out”). Displaced native barrow (from beorg) and down (from dūn), and partially displaced non-native Old English munt, from Latin mōns (whence English mount).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA