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
	unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard
singular	montr	vontr	unchanged	unchanged
plural	montroù	vontroù	unchanged	unchanged