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, page 178:
      [...] that has not really happened in Breton, where they still say ma montr zo o tréssa [P] 'My watch is fixing (=being fixed)'.
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Inflection

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