Description:

The term 'owat' means a mound or hill. As a noun it refers to the land form or structure. As a verb is means to make something into a mound. The word for 'mountain', 'zrowat', is based on it.

Noun:

Owat alone means a mound or hill. The derived from 'owatka' can be used to disambiguate if a created mound is meant. The slightly irregular form 'sinowat', from 'sino', 'slightly' and 'owat', mount, means literally 'little mound', and is a polite and clinical collective term for the female external genetalia.

The word for mountain, 'zrowat', is based on 'owat'. It was originally 'zre owat' in Old Common, derived directly and explicitly from 'zre', 'true', and 'owat', 'mound'. The shortening 'zr'owat' became popular in the middle period, and it was codified as 'zrowat' in the early modern period. In modern High Common, 'owat' is usually used for a hill you can walk up and 'zrowat' for a rise steep enough that you would need your hands to climb.

Verb:

As a verb, owat means to form something into a mount. It is a transitive skurun verb taking an ergative subject which is the agent creating the mound, and an absolutive object which is the material of the mound.