montr

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BretonEdit

FWOTD - 12 August 2013

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from French montre.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /mɔ̃ntʁ/

NounEdit

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)'.