- There is a Mountlake Terrace, Washington, so "mountlake" is not unknown in English, but it's not all that common either. "Corn" and "Cornwall" have an etymological connection, but they parted ways a long time ago.[1][2] ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 12:33, 21 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- No, no. A proper name "Mountlake" in USA does not qualify as an English Vocabulary word. Your claims lack support by any general or etymological dictionary. DroneB (talk) 12:03, 22 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- What claim? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 12:53, 22 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Both of your sentences. DroneB (talk) 13:40, 22 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Maybe you missed the EO references about "corn". As to Mountlake Terrace, the article says "They named their development "Mountlake Terrace" because from some parts of the property they could see both Mount Rainier and Lake Washington, and the old runway looked a little like a terrace." Whether that has anything to do with the OP's use of "mountlake" (which I never heard of until the OP brought it up), I couldn't say. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 14:24, 22 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Probably you guessed that the speculated (=uncertain) origin of the Celtic Cornovii tribe name was the modern word "corn" which means a Cereal grain to the British and Maize to you. In that guess you are unsupported by etymologists who inform that Celtic kernou "horn," hence "headland," has nothing to do with modern corn, and never had. See Cornovii (Cornwall)#Etymology. When you cannot say anything about the OP's use of "a mountlake" (not capitalized so not a proper noun), it would be better that you didn't. DroneB (talk) 17:31, 22 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- "Horn" and "corn" come from the same root. As to "mountlake", feel free to look for a definition of it and report back to us. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 17:40, 22 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Still No. Saying that corn and horn rhyme is not providing a linguistic root of any help to the OP. A person upset at failing to find a non-existing word "mountlake" in any English dictionary but unable to shut up about it might keep wasting readers' time with this American placename. This pointless thread deserves a hat. DroneB (talk) 21:54, 22 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Done. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 22:12, 22 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- It's nothing to do with rhyming. horn, corn and kernel all have the same root. If you read the links I provided, you'll see that. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 08:11, 23 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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