montr

Breton
FWOTD – 12 August 2013

Etymology

Borrowed from French montre.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mɔ̃ntʁ/

Noun

montr m (plural montroù)

  1. a watch (wearable timepiece)
    • 1990, Thomas Arwyn Watkins, Martin John Ball, Celtic Linguistics / Ieithyddiaeth Geltaidd: Readings in the Brythonic Languages. p. 178.
      [...] that has not really happened in Breton, where they still say ma montr zo o tréssa [P] 'My watch is fixing (=being fixed)'.

Inflection
  Mutation of montr  
Breton consonant mutation
unmutatedsoftaspiratehardmixed
singular montr vontr unchanged unchanged vontr
plural montroù vontroù unchanged unchanged vontroù
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