montagne

• montaygni (Old Beaujolais)

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin montānia.

montagne f (plural montagnes) (ORB, broad)

1. mountain

• montagne in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• montagne in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 421: “la montagna” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 874: “montagne” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*montanea”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 100

Inherited from Middle French montaigne, from Old French montaigne, from Early Medieval Latin montānia, a collective based on Latin montem.

• IPA^(key): /mɔ̃.taɲ/

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• Rhymes: -aɲ

montagne f (plural montagnes)

1. mountain
2. mountain (huge amount)

   des montagnes de dettes ― mountains of debts

3. mountain (challenging task)

   en faire une montagne ― make a mountain of it

4. (colloquial) a very large, muscular man

   Ce catcheur est une vraie montagne. ― This wrestler is a real mountain of a man.

• “montagne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• mangeont

Probably borrowed from Italian montagna,^[1] from Early Medieval Latin montānia, a collective based on Latin montem.

montagne f (plural montagnis)

1. mountain

• mont
• montagnûl
• montagnôs

• IPA^(key): /monˈtaɲ.ɲe/
• Rhymes: -aɲɲe
• Hyphenation: mon‧tà‧gne

montagne f

1. plural of montagna

• mantengo