montr
Breton
FWOTD – 12 August 2013
Etymology
Borrowed from French montre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɔ̃ntʁ/
Noun
montr m (plural montroù)
- 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)'.
- 1990, Thomas Arwyn Watkins, Martin John Ball, Celtic Linguistics / Ieithyddiaeth Geltaidd: Readings in the Brythonic Languages. p. 178.
Inflection
Mutation of montr
Breton consonant mutation | ||||
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unmutated | soft | aspirate | hard | |
singular | montr | vontr | unchanged | unchanged |
plural | montroù | vontroù | unchanged | unchanged |